1. Development of the AstroGrid in Bulgaria Participants Supporting organizations The SSADC, WFPDB and HyperLeda Future plans and perspectives Milcho Tsvetkov and Valeri Golev Zagreb 18-20.10.2002 Milcho Tsvetkov and Valeri Golev Zagreb 18-20.10.2002

2. Participants Space Research Institute, BAS Institute of Astronomy, BAS Department of Astronomy, Sofia University

3. Supporting Organizations National Science Fund Ministry of Education and Science (Project NSF I-1101/01) Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung German Research Foundation (DFG) Projects 436/BUL113/120-01 Center for Informatics (ZIV) Műnster University EC- COST Action 283 “ Computational and Information Infrastructure in the Astronomical DataGrid” 2002-2004 IAU Commission’s #5 “Documentation and Astronomical Data”, # 9 (“Instruments”) - WG “Wide-field Sky Surveys”

4. Structure of the BAG

5. SOFIA Sky Archive DataCenter Operating with the support of Space Research Institute BAS and MES Main project: Wide- Field Plate Database http://www.skyarchive.org/SSADC Created with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

6. STRUCTURE Hosting the website of the Humboldt Union in Bulgaria http://www.avh-bulgaria.org SSADC

7. Wide-Field Plate Database Project of the IAU WG Sky Surveys: –Catalog of WFPA: 2x10 6 plates –Plate logs transformation –Search in WFPDB –Plate digitization Collaboration: CDS, ESO, UDAPAC, etc. http://www.skyarchive.org

8. Wide-Field Plate Database

9. Partners and Related Projects Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam (AIP) Dr. Remeis Sternwrarte Bamberg Sonneberg Observatory Műnster University - “Zentrum fűr Informationsverarbeitung” (ZIV) Konkoly Observatory (Hungary) Center for Astronomical Data of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INASAN) Royal Observatory Belgium - UDAPAC (Uccle Direct Astronomical Plate Archive Center) Strasbourg Observatory, CDS and IAU commission #8 “Astrometry” - WG “One-century old plates of the astrographic program” Royal Edinburgh Observatory - Wide-Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU) Cambridge Institute of Astronomy - APM Laboratory Spectral Virtual Observatory (Canada) Main Observatory (Ukraine)

10. HyperCat http://astro.uni-sofia.bg Current common project with France evolved to...

11. HyperLeda H yper L inked E xtragalactic D atabases and A rchives Project of Astronomical Observatory, Sofia University … merging HyperCat and LEDA

12. Project Goals The scientific goal which motivated the development of former HyperCat was the study of the physics and evolution of galaxies. Since 2000, HyperCat and LEDA are operated in a common Consortium which soon will offer a merged interface called HyperLeda.

13. Enlargement the SSADC with new equipment (AvH Shtiftung donation in 2003): a new local server and precise fast scanner. Development of the High Performance Cluster (HPC) for the WFPDB and HyperLeda purposes (ZIV Uni-Műnster donation) Enlargement the Wide Field Plate Databse and implementation in the International Astronomical Data Center in Strasbourg - complementation of the Bamberg Plate Archive and make it available on line via Internet - Integration with VizieR (CDS) and Astrophysical Data System (ADS) of Harvard Institute of Astronomy Providing a data-grid service for the astronomical community in Bulgaria and in the region of E&SE Europe Future plans and perspectives

14. The test HPC “Pleiades” in SSADC

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