1. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator OV France French VO

2. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator France VO Organizing French participation to the VO was recognized as a priority in the last strategic planning exercise (La Colle sur Loup, February 2003) ‘Action Specifique Observatoire Virtuel France’ (France VO Specific Action) created by INSU in 2004 with support from CNES Role –Coordinate the French participation to the IVO –Contact point for European projects –Contact point with IT

3. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Basic philosophy People and money for developing projects come from INSU, CNES, Programs (= sub-disciplines) and Specific Actions, laboratories AS OV takes care of the (thin) interoperability layer Astronomy, heliosperic/space plasma physics, planetology, astroparticles Bottom-up approach

4. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator F-VO data-bases, services and tools Observatory archives and value added services and tools in national/international niches linked to expertise on science topics or instruments Role of the CNRS National Programs: evaluation of and support to specialized services Role of laboratories: give priority and resources and maintain them on the medium term

5. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Organisation Run by a Scientific Council, a few experts and representatives of Programs (which deal with astronomy sub-disciplines, e.g. galaxies, interstellar medium, cosmology, …, and also numerical modelling, …) A small amount of money, mainly travel to help collaborations and participation to IVOA meetings Bottom-up approach, main role is to trigger the creation of a national VO community

6. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator

7. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator http://France-vo.orghttp://France-vo.org community tool (mostly in French)

8. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator AS OV Actions (1) Census of data centres (2004, 2006) 2 AOs/year “Thematic school” 7-9 November 2005 Discussion of VO use cases/projects in different sub-disciplines Presentations to Program meetings and SF2A

9. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator AS OV Actions (2) Support to travel to IVOA Interoperability meetings (a solid community of participants to the IVOA standard development, well beyond the core CDS team) Tutorials for developers Support to travel to EuroVO Workshop

10. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Tutorials « VO standards and tools » for beginners Strasbourg, 11-13 October 2004 Strasbourg, 30 January-2 February 2006 Strasbourg, January 2007 2x20 participants, from nearly all French astronomy laboratories Talks/practical exercises on real examples

11. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator AS OV Actions (3) Working Groups – possible topics for DCA WGs if interest from other partners –Spectroscopic data –Theory –Workflow – use cases –GRID –Geodetics –Also interest in Fundamental data (at. And mol. Physics), VO-3D

12. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Data Centres (1) 40+ answers to the census CRAL; GRAAL; IAP; IAS; IPSL/SA; O. Besançon; O. Bordeaux; O. Côte d’Azur/Cassiopée, Gemini; O. Grenoble (LAOG, LPG); OAMP/LAM; OMP/CESR, OP/GEPI, IMCCE, LERMA, LESIA, LUTH, SYRTE, O. Strasbourg Can be used for the preliminary census, consolidation on-going (general meeting 28-30 November 2006)

13. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Data Centres (2) A huge diversity in themes, size and organization – is that a proper classification for DCA? –Data archives / science ready data –Added-value data bases and services –Standards and tools –Software suites –Theory –Thematic services Questions: IRAM; other disciplines (solar and heliosperic physics?, planets – EuroPlanet N7)

14. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Most French astronomy laboratories are involved in the development of VO-oriented services and tools Answers to the 2006 census of OV actions in France were received from all Observatories (Besançon, Bordeaux, Côte d’Azur, Lyon, Marseille-Provence, Midi– Pyrénées, Paris, Strasbourg), and GRAAL(Montpellier), IAP (Paris), IAS (Orsay) A wide diversity of actions Archives of observations/science-ready data Value-added data bases and services Tools (visualisation, image analysis, …) Standards Software suites Numerical simulations/theoretical astronomy services Thematic services Many projects at different scales, some of them operational, some in development or in project A new frame for ‘classical’ services such as the CDS, CDPP, MEDOC, BASS 2000, IMCCE, TERAPIX The usage of IVOA standards ensures interoperability with services and tools from the other VO projects IAU General Assemby – Prague 2006 Data/added-value data from Nançay Radio Telescope, OHP GIRAFFE, EROS, CAI Atlases, Fabry-Perot data, VIMOS COROT, FUSE, Planck, XMM BASS 2000, MEDOC (Sun) CDPP, CIME-G (space plasma physics/ionosphere) Added-value services CDS (SIMBAD, VizieR, Aladin) IMCCE (SkyBot, ephemeris and astrometry of Solar system objects) Geodesy/Reference systems Study of Planets (BDAP, comets,…) Services and tools related to the analysis of spectral data: POLLUX, BASECOL/MOLAT (Atomic and Molecular data bases), CASSIS, DALIA, ‘Radiative transfer’ Specific services: Exoplanets, Hyperleda, Besançon double star data base, Be stars, Small bodies of the outer Solar System, CFHTLS galaxy clusters Software suites TERAPIX and other image processing tools JMMC (interferometry) MIGALE Theory/Modelling Besançon model ‘Numerical portal’ of Paris Observatory (PDR code, Titan,…) HORIZON data bases and services Among technical actions Participation in the definition of IVOA standards Workflow use cases ‘Intelligent resource discovery’ Image processing Usage of the computational GRID Outreach Participation to ‘Hands on Universe’ In preparation: support documents for teaching Adapted from the F-VO Poster in Prague

15. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Participation to WPs (1) In charge of WP1, WP2 Will participate to WP 3 and WP 3-2: tutors to Workshops, technical visits WP 4: an active community (O. Paris, O. Lyon, O. Besançon) – H. Wozniak to TEG Not only cosmology simulations, also ‘atmospheres’, MIS (F. LePetit, M.L. Dubernet, LUTH)

16. INSU/OV France First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Participation to WPs (2) WP 5: some experience with GRID MDA project- Strasbourg, OCA: workflow interacting with EGEE, GRID 5000; Lyon; Grenoble; GRID 5000 – contacts: A. Schaaff (Strasbourg), P. Valiron (Grenoble), H.Wozniak (Lyon) WP 6: long tradition of collaborations. Not a complete list at present. Interest from Konkoly, Ireland. Ready to help using CDS knowledge and contacts.