05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Chinese Virtual Observatory (China-VO) Chenzhou Cui Chinese Virtual Observatory Project National Astronomical Observatory of China

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Chinese Virtual Observatory Agenda  Why China-VO  History  Research & Development Focuses  Latest Progress  Partners and collaboration

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Development of China-VO Advanced research platform for Chinese astronomers Acquire data and technologies from IVOA partners Share our data (LAMOST, SST, FAST, BATC …) with international astronomers Bring up a group of VO-oriented astronomers, engineers and students Public Education

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Milestones Nov. 2001, the 1st national VO meeting Jul. 2002, “China-VO” project initiated Oct. 2002, joined to IVOA Feb. 2003, first grid service, “Hello China-VO” May 2003, “ConeSearch” service prototype Jun. 2003, System design documents (draft) Sep. 2003, the 2nd national VO meeting »China-VO WG established Oct. 2003, Demo: Chemical Evolution Research of the Galaxy under Grid Environments Nov. 2003, IVOA Small Projects Meeting Mar. 2004, VOTFilter

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Principles for China-VO R&D Interoperable and Compatible with IVOA Based on Grid Free software + cheap Hardware International collaboration

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science China-VO R&D focuses Unlike NVO, Euro-VO and AstroGrid, as a small VO project, China-VO will emphasize on applications and portals. But we will take part in the developments of IVOA standards and infrastructure actively.

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science R&D Focuses 1.China-VO Platform Construction 2.Integrated Data Access Service for national and international astronomical datasets 3.Legacy Application Integration 4.Astronomical Instrument Integration –VO-enabled LAMOST 5.Education

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Architecture: China-VO Platform

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science SOA: China-VO Platform

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Topology: China-VO Platform

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Legacy Application Integration existing Software Packages, Toolkits, Libraries –Astronomical Utilities –Image Manipulation –Math and Statistics –Plotting IRAF, MIDAS, AIPS, … need much user interaction almost impossible for integration the more simple I/O and simple user interface the more easier to integrate

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Data Access Services IVOA DAL and Interoperability standards –VOTable, SIA, UCD, VOQL, etc. easy access to national and international astronomical datasets especially important for countries absent of large observation instruments

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Astronomical Instrument Integration Current projects: NAOC 2.16m telescope Yunnan observatory 2.4m telescope public internet observatory wide-field camera, 35cm, 60cm Tsinghua Univ. 40cm public telescope NAOC 2.16 m telescope

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Large sky Area Multi-Object fibre Spectroscopy Telescope Clear aperture:  4m Field of view:  5° Focal plane:  1.75m Focal length:20m Number of fibers:4000 Spectral ranges:370 ～ 900nm Spectral resolution:1 ～ 0.25nm Sky coverage:Declination -10  to+90  A meridian reflecting Schmidt telescope VO-enabled LAMOST

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science VO-enabled LAMOST VO-enabled –LAMOST data –LAMOST telescope –LAMOST Spectral Analysis Pipeline

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science VO-based Education international education resource access bilingual Skymap English-Chinese astronomical dictionary Amateur Astro-Photography Gallery … China-VO education portal

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Data Access Service Chemical Evolution Research of the Galaxy under Grid Environments VOTFilter gImageMagick China-VO Service Registry Latest Progress

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Database Access Service Catalog/metadata VOTable Wrapper ADQL/SQL Translator GT3 Interface ADQL VOTable JDBC SQLResultSet DBMS Chart courtesy of Jian Sang

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Catalog Selection ConeSearch –RA –DEC –Radius Database Access Service

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Galactic Abundance Gradients Analysis Databases Data Access Statistic Analysis Orbit Computing

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science VOTFilter An XML Filter written in XSLT for OpenOffice Calc to read&write files in VOTable format VOTable The first standard from IVOA an XML format defined for the exchange of tabular data in the context of the Virtual Observatory

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Usage and Snapshot

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Funding and Collaboration Funding –500,000 RMB (~63,000 USD) –NSF China –MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology, China) –CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Collaboration –WDC-China –CNGrid project (CNIC) –Xinglong Station (NAOC) –LAMOST project (NAOC)

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science Partners National Astronomical Observatories, CAS – Beijing, Yunnan, … Astronomy Department, Peking University University of Science and Technology of China Astrophysics Center, Tsinghua University Physics Department, Central China Normal University Computer Network Information Center, CAS Supercomputing Center, CAS Institute of Computing Technology, CAS ……

05/24/2004The 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science

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