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Tara,
I understand this could be part of the discussion at the JBO meeting on
1-3 March of Radionet computing.
I have seen a simple proposal submission tools that was 'written for
RadioNet'.
Would be good if AU people who go (Vince?) know about actual
plans/wishes of Australia.
Groeten
Wim
<p>> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ivo_at_atnf.csiro.au
> [mailto:owner-ivo_at_atnf.csiro.au] On Behalf Of Murphy, Tara
> (ATNF, Marsfield)
> Sent: Friday, 21 January 2005 01:02
> To: ivo_at_atnf.csiro.au
> Cc: Chapman, Jessica (ATNF, Marsfield)
> Subject: FW: Proposals
>
>
> Hi,
> This discussion about proposal systems for radio astronomy
> (on radiovo) might be of interested to some Aus-VO people.
>
> Tara
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radiovo_at_eso.org [mailto:owner-radiovo_at_eso.org] On
> Behalf Of Anita Richards
> Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2005 9:26 PM
> To: radiovo_at_ivoa.net
> Subject: Proposals
>
>
>
> (also sent to interop so apologies to anyone who gets this twice)
>
> If we are looking at use-case driven priorities for
> standards, then something else which has come up in RadioNet
> is Proposal Tools.
>
> Reps from European radio observatories and ALMA have had
> discussions about designing as homogenous as possible an
> interface for users making web-based observing proposals. I
> know that something similar is going on with US radio (at
> least) observatories, and as the common link is ALMA there is
> some hope of overall coherence....
>
> We did identify the need to establish a common model (not for
> small details, just to simplify terminology etc.). The
> drivers for this are
> a) Allow software to be shared (as proposal tools use
> exposure calculators
> etc.)
> b) Reduce the learning curve for users
> c) Make it easier to make multi-telescope proposals
>
> There is also the wish to use VO facilities to search for
> calibration sources etc. and invesigate what is known already
> about the region of interest. More widely, the concept
> includes all kinds of proposals including for supercomputing
> facilities and potentially for very demanding VO projects!
>
> At present we don't envisage proposal tools integrated into
> VO interfaces nor that a search for X would produce a
> response 'no data yet but you could propose an observation
> with IRAM, deadline 99th of Thermidor' (although projects
> like ESTAR are moving in this direction), but to employ a VO
> approach to standards and to link to VO facilities (e.g. cone search).
>
> I am probably not going to Kyoto and I don't know if it is
> worth a special session, but if anyone else is interested we
> can set up a forum.
>
> cheers
> a
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> - Dr. Anita M. S. Richards, AstroGrid Astronomer MERLIN/VLBI
> National Facility, University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank
> Observatory, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL, U.K. tel +44
> (0)1477 572683 (direct); 571321 (switchboard); 571618 (fax).
>
Received on 2005-02-24 23:28:16