WP5 service activities for higher education and outreach INAF – CDS – ESO – ARI – INTA Massimo Ramella (INAF-OATs) Fourth Euro-VO Technology ForumFourth Euro-VO Technology Forum: September 2009, Trieste

WP5 REPORT STATUS OF THE PROJECT (m. ramella) DIFFUSION OF WP5 (m. ramella) USE CASES (g. iafrate) ALADIN (f. bonnarel) SIMPLAY (s. derriere) Fourth Euro-VO Technology ForumFourth Euro-VO Technology Forum: September 2009, Trieste

AIDA WP5 Objectives Provide tools for access to VO data for higher education students, for middle school teachers and students, and for amateur astronomers Provide some basic information on the main classes of objects available to our public within the Euro VO database. Offer to students a glimpse of the professional world of astronomers without the burden of a too steep learning curve. Fourth Euro-VO Technology ForumFourth Euro-VO Technology Forum: September 2009, Trieste

The work plan Phase A 1.Requirements and choice of outreach interfaces 2.Production and/or modification of existing software 3.Translation of outreach interfaces 4.Basic documentation with some examples Phase B 1.Identify testers and design appealing projects for them 2.Test Interface 3.Gather, translate and organize feed-back for interface revisions Phase C we are here 1.Produce documents (userguide, primer, examples, basic script library...) 2.Produce basic outreach content for interface and dedicated web-site 3.Distribute and promote the use of our outreach products Fourth Euro-VO Technology ForumFourth Euro-VO Technology Forum: September 2009, Trieste

WP5 STATUS SOFTWARE: ONLY MINOR REVISIONS USE CASES: LIBRARY OK AND GROWING TRANSLATIONS: PROGRESS, BUT MORE WORK NEEDEDTRANSLATIONS AIDA WP5 WEB SITE: GRAPHIC DESIGN AND STRUCTURE OK, NEEDS PROGRAMMING AND TRANSLATIONS Fourth Euro-VO Technology ForumFourth Euro-VO Technology Forum: September 2009, Trieste

WP5 DIFFUSION –Südthüringer Tag der Astronomie, Suhl, Germany, Dec 6, 2008 –INAF National Meeting on Outreach and Education, Milano, Italy, Jan 28 – 29, 2009 –General Assembly of the European Geoscience Union, Vienna, Austria, Apr 19 – 24, 2009 –General Assembly of the Italian Astronomical Society, Pisa, Italy, May 4 – 8, 2009 –Tage der Schulastronomie, University of Jena, Jena, Germany, June 25 – 27, 2009 –STELLA certificateSTELLA certificate –H.O.U. 2nd COMENIUS-funded Teacher Training Session, Cardiff, UK, Aug 23 – 24, 2009Cardiff –Workshop Robotic Telescopes in Spain, Madrid, Spain, September 7 – 8, 2009 –Meeting of the German Astronomische Gesellschaft, Potsdam, Germany, September 21-25, 2009 (accepted) –L’astronomia e i suoi strumenti prima e dopo Galileo, INAF and IAU, Venice, Italy, September 27 – October 3, 2009 (accepted) Fourth Euro-VO Technology ForumFourth Euro-VO Technology Forum: September 2009, Trieste

WP5 TRANSLATIONS USE CASES (stars, sky, SN, hubble, pleyades, Crab, Andromeda, Barnard): –Italian: all (8/8) –English: all (8/8) –German: SN, Hubble, Andromeda, Barnard (4/8) –Spanish: Barnard (1/8) –Dutch: none –French: none SOFTWARE –Stellarium: all (6/6) –Aladin: Italian, French, English, German (4/6) GUIDES: –Stellarium: English –Aladin: French, English (Italian: work in progress) WEB SITE: coming soon Fourth Euro-VO Technology ForumFourth Euro-VO Technology Forum: September 2009, Trieste