1. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO WP6: Support to data centres from other European Countries

2. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO WP6: goals Same objectives as WP3… –Dissemination of VObs knowledge. –Support to Data Centres willing to join the VObs initiative. … but different “audience” –Data Centres from European countries not participating in the project.

3. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO WP6: work methodology Identification of potentially interested Data Centres. –Previous knowledge + Census of European Data Centres (e.g. Ukraine, Switzerland) From Centres with a positive response: –Official letter of interest indicating: Clear, focused objectives Specific needs Added value for the DCA project Contact point

4. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO WP6: work methodology (II) Support –Technical Visits: To/from the Data Centre. Close-contact after the visit: periodic reports and feedback. –Participation in DCA workshops and IVOA Interop. Meetings. –Regional VObs info-workshops Sofia, Bulgaria. 2008, Jan 24-25th. Lisbon, Portugal, Oct 2008.

5. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Portugal University of Lisbon/SIM (Laboratory of Systems, Instrumentations and Modelling). Contact points: André Moitinho, Sonia Anton.

6. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Portugal: VO Service I San Pedro Martir Open Cluster Survey UBVRI imaging and photometry of 300 northern open clusters. To be registered in June'08.

7. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Portugal: VO Service II CLASS Sample of 11000 radio sources. Service will be registered in August'08.

8. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Portugal: VO Service III Coimbra Solar Images Archive 30000 spectroheliograms covering 80 years. Supported in the VO-AIDA framework.

9. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Attendance to workshops –ESAC Grid Workshop (Nov’07): Sonia Anton. Others –DCA letter of support for a proposal to the GRID Portuguese Programme. Next steps –Garching DCA Workshop (Jun'08): Sonia Anton –Presentation of the VObs service to the Portuguese stellar community --> DCA Info-day in Lisbon. Oct'08. Portugal

10. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Bulgaria Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Contact point: Milcho Tsvetkov

11. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Bulgaria: VO services C atalogue of wide-field plate archives Descriptive information for 414 archives of photographic observations. To be registered in Aug'08. Catalogue of wide-field plate archives Descriptive information for 530000 observations from 114 archives. To be registered in Nov'08. Archive of digitised plates In the framework of AIDA

12. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Bulgaria: Report of activities VObs Info-Workshop: Sofia, 2008, Jan 24-25 –40 participants (Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Romania) + 9 DCA Day-1: –DCA lectures on: The VObs: Why is it necessary? IVOA VObs standards: access protocols, formats, data models, registries,… VObs tools VObs Science –Presentations from participating Data Centres

13. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Bulgaria: Report of activities VObs Info-Workshop: Sofia, 2008, Jan 24-25 –Day-2: Hands-on sessions on how to publish in the VObs. –Guided by DCA tutors. –Work on real data brought by the participants from their Data Centres. Workshop summary and follow-up plans. –Feedback questionnaire filled in by participants.

14. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO More info at: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twikiDCA/bin/view/EuroVODCA/Sofia_workshop_jan08

15. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO –Attendance to workshops & technical visits IVOA Interop. Meeting (May’07): Milcho Tsvetkov. Damyan Kalaglarsky visited Petra Boehm in Postdam (Nov’07) Bulgaria

16. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Czech Republic –Ondrejov Observatory –Contact point: Petr Skoda

17. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Report of activities: Czech Republic The project: “STELOND: Spectra archive for the Ondrejov 2-m telescope (the largest telescope in the Czech Rep.). To be registered in Sep'08.

18. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Report of activities: Czech Rep. (II) Attendance to workshops & Technical visits –Garching DCA Theory & Grid Workshop (Apr’08): Petr Skoda. Next steps –Technical visit (Jul'08): Philippe Prugniel to Ondrejov –Interop. meeting (Oct'08): Petr Skoda

19. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Report of activities: Hungary Konkoly Observatory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Contact point: András Holl The project: “VObs-compliance of the International Bulletin of Variable Stars”.

20. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Report of activities: Hungary (II) VO tools: Aladin as a visualization tool for IBVS.

21. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Report of activities: Hungary (II) VO tools. –Aladin as a visualization tool for IBVS: finding charts

22. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Hungary Attendance to workshops & Technical visits –Andras Holl: technical visit to CDS (Mar’08) Others - Strong involvement in the development of a data model for light curves (in collab. With Spanish VO and France-VO).

23. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesEuroVO-DCA Review, 10 January 2007 E. Solano. LAEFF- Spanish VO Other European countries Romania: – First contacts during the Sofia VO-Info Workshop. –Two groups: Laurentiu I. Caramete. (Institute for Space Sciences. Bucharest) –VO-tools for the Planck mission and astroparticle physics in general, Petre Popescu –Database of photographic plates and CCDs (Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy) –Willing to organize themselves at national level –Participation in the IVOA Interop (May’08) (Caramete).

24. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesEuroVO-DCA Review, 10 January 2007 E. Solano. LAEFF- Spanish VO Other European countries Serbia –First contacts during the Sofia VO-Info Workshop. –Milan Dimitrijevic, Belgrade Astronom. Obs. – BELDATA: Database containing Stark broadening parameters. – Participation in the IVOA Interop (May’08) (Dimitrijevic)

25. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesEuroVO-DCA Review, 10 January 2007 E. Solano. LAEFF- Spanish VO Other European countries Lithuania: – First contacts during the VO School in Vilnius (Oct’07). –Sarunas Mikolaitis: participation in the Garching workshop (Jun’08). Interested in GRID and stellar spectroscopy. Switzerland : –Contacted through the DCA census –VO-compliance of the INTEGRAL archive

26. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Non-European countries VObs is a global endeavour and collaboration already exists with many non-European countries. The DCA project is willing to strengthen its links with these countries by providing a limited amount of support.

27. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Non-European countries Garching workshop (Jun’08): –Chile / Jean Hardings Perl / Universidad de Chile –China / Chenzou Cui (+1) / China-VO leader –Russia / Olga Zhelenkova / SAO –RAS Archive. –Armenia / Areg Mickaelian / Armenia-VO leader –Mexico / Juan Pablo Papaqui Also first contacts with Ukraine through the DCA Census.

28. Support to Data Centres from other European CountriesThird PCT meeting, 29 May 2008 R. Gutiérrez. LAEFF- Spanish VO Summary Very successful cooperation with Data Centres from Portugal, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Czech Republic. These teams have begun to build a strategy to include their knowledge and data holdings in the VObs. In some cases a national VObs-infrastructure is being created. The number of interested partners is growing (Switzerland, Ukraine, Lithuania,...)