1. Updated SkyMouse and Suggestions to VO Service Developers HuaPing SUN, Chenzhou CUI China-VO National Astronomical Observatory of China

2. IVOA 2007, Beijing Online Astronomical Resources Catalogs (Database tables) Image archives –Spectrum archives Bibliographic archives Information services

3. IVOA 2007, Beijing SkyMouse: A light-weight information collector Not like some VO efforts on uniformed access systems, for example, NVO DataScope, SkyMouse tries to show a comprehensive overview for a specific object, but not to snatch as much data as possible.

4. IVOA 2007, Beijing Characteristics Easy of Use. Access to world wide astronomical references, catalogs, images, and maybe more, by a simple “Mouse” action.

5. IVOA 2007, Beijing Architecture Client/Server and service oriented architecture

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8. Functions Screen word-capturing (Windows & Linux; automatic, selection and hotkey) Multiple types of backend services integration, HTTP GET, CGI, Web Services, Grid Services. Per-selected commonly used resources including SIMBAD, DSS, ADS, VizieR and NED. VO-Registry based service discovery Simple services management Faster responses based on cashes Different output formats, i.e. ASCII, PDF, HTML Astronomical dictionary Chinese Support Update check

9. IVOA 2007, Beijing Implementation details “Screen word-capturing” technique developed independently. Web 2.0 technologies: – AJAX, provides smoothly response and better user experience. –.Net framework, the backend system is based on MicroSoft.Net framework.

10. IVOA 2007, Beijing How to get? How to install? How to use? How to feedback?

11. IVOA 2007, Beijing Suggestions to VO developers More powerful CDS name resolver web service. (http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cdsws/name_resolver.gml) –sesame(String name, String resultType) Service developing should use standard/universal data types and interface to enhance interoperability. –Java –C# –PHP –Python –…

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13. Evolution (Web Search Engine) (Professional DBs) (Virtual Observatory)

14. IVOA 2007, Beijing Topology Browser, Client/Server topology

15. IVOA 2007, Beijing How the SkyMouse works? Characters on the screen are captured by the client, then will be sent to SkyMouse server after simple analyse. SkyMouse server accepts item from the client and then sends it to name resolving service of SIMBAD or NED for further information, esp. coordinate. Different databases will be queried using the coordinate and object name. SkyMouse server collects results and displays them in user’s default web browser. –(without cash)

16. IVOA 2007, Beijing New Characters in SkyMouse 2.x VO-Registry based service discovery and updates Service custom by user Client package for Linux OS Faster responses based on cashes Different output formats, i.e. ASCII, Pdf, rtf, odf Support SkyNode and Cone Search Services Astronomical dictionary

17. IVOA 2007, Beijing Roadmap 2005-05-17 Rough Idea; 2005-09-30 Tech Preview alpha; 2005-11-15 Tech Preview beta; 2005-12-31 SkyMouse 1.0 Alpha 2006-07-19 SkyMouse 1.0 2006-10-15 SkyMouse 1.1 2006-12-31 SkyMouse 2.0 Alpha 2007-05-12 SkyMouse 2.0 Beta

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