VOTutorial: Virtual Observatory Software & Standards

Sunday 12 October

Main Lecture Hall

13:00 to 18:00

 

13:00 Introduction (Bob Hanisch)

 

13:05 VOTable (Sonali Kale)

·         The VOTable Format (Francois Ochsenbein)

·         VOTable Parsers (Pallavi Kulkarni)

·         Developing VOTable-Based Applications

o        VOPlot (Sonali Kale)

o        Mirage (Sonali Kale)

o        Topcat (Mark Taylor)

o        Treeview (Mark Taylor)

 

14:10 Data Access Layer (Doug Tody)

·         DAL Overview (Doug Tody)

·         How to Implement the DAL Cone Search and SIA services (Gretchen Greene)

·         How to Navigate VO Datasets Using VO Protocols (Tom McGlynn)

·         How to Adapt Existing Archives to SIAP

o        The XMM-Newton and ISO Cases (Pedro Osuna)

o        Interfacing the CDS Aladin Image Service and Client Viewer (Francois Bonnarel)

15:20 Break

 

15:45 Web and Grid Services (Andre Schaaff)

·         How to Consume Web Services in C# and Java (Tamas Budavari and Andre Schaaff)

·         How to Implement a Client Program in Java or Other Scripting Languages to Use the VO Statistics Web Service (Matthew Graham)

·         How to Build a Java or C# Client for a Registry Web Service (Wil O’Mullane)

·         How to Build C# and Java Clients for the SDSS Image Cutout (Maria Nieto-Santisteban)

·         How to Build a Java Client for a Grid Service Using Globus Toolkit 3 (Guy Rixon)

·         Inside the Server (Andre Schaaff)

 

17:00 Close