The NVO Portal Tom McGlynn, NASA/GSFC Gretchen Greene, ST ScI John Good, IRSA/IPAC Roy Williams, CACR/Caltech Mike Fitzpatrick, NOAO T HE US N ATIONAL V IRTUAL O BSERVATORY
Purpose Make it easy for astronomers to find useful information in the VO Accommodate many different kinds of searches Web interface with no required downloads Easy linkage between Web and scripting capabilities No VO jargon 20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste2
Design Collaborating, distributed, simple elements Standard protocol for transmitting information between elements: List of sources List of resources –All VOTables Elements call each other as appropriate with many starting points. Common templates and vocabulary 20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste3
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste4 Table Viewer Registry Inventory Collector Integrator Command Line Command Line Table Translator Table Translator Help More Tools Data Discovery Portal (concept)
Current Portal Home Page 20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste5
Portal help 20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste6
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste7 Registry
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste8 Registry
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste9 Registry
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste10 Registry SearchMe -> Table Viewer
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste11 Table Viewer: Display …
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste12 TableViewer: … and Filter ASCII File XML File VIM Service Inventory Service
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste13 Table Viewer: … and plot
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste14 Viewer sends table to Inventory. Find resources with data near list of positions
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste15 Inventory Service: View a result
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste16 Build up table with VIM Integrator See Roys talk later today.
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste17 VIM Integrator: Getting lists of images
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste18 DataScope Collector: single source
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste19 Collector: Main page
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste20 Collector: Resource summary
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste21 Collector Aladin
20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste22 VOClient: Command Line Search and retrieval
VOClient capabilities VORegistry: search the registry VOSesame: Name resolver VOData: Query resources at a single or multiple positions cat list | vodata -q -V -X -O - -p - -rd 1.4 \ ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/neat 20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste23
Table formatter 20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste24
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Table Wizard 20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste26 See John McQs talk
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Key elements Common template -> coherent environment Common JavaScript/XSLT VOTable processing –Potentially useful in any Web app that displays VOTables. Standard formats for passing information among elements. VOClient used within inventory, table viewer as well as by users. 20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste28
Status and Plans All elements functional Alpha release for comment and testing – and links thereinhttp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/vo/portal Registry inconsistencies can lead to services not being found. Further work in eliminating jargon and smoothing user experience. Beta release to public soon. Please send comments! 20 May 2008McGlynn: IVOA Meeting-Trieste29