Review "Publishing data into the VO"

• Meeting 10.12.2021, 13:00 UTC in zoom.
  • Attendees : Janet Evans, Marco Molinaro, Francois Bonnarel, Dave Morris, Hendrik Heinl, Ada Nebot
  • Notes :
    • Multiple pages in the wiki. We should settle on one, and delete the others to avoid confusion. Delete the others to avoid Google finding them buried in the wiki history. Action on MM: email the Document coordinator.
    • Series of simple steps that a publisher would need to follow. Getting the metadata, FITS headers, formats etc right. Then we point out the technical tools. Action on JE: share the slide.
    • What does the user want to do? Why do they end up on the IVOA site? We can't predict all of the use cases. Action on AN: Start a webpage to collect information.
    • Make the page a tree structure with links to specific use case (landing) pages. For each use case have a contact person who has done the same thing.
    • Current Q&A looks good as a start, but examples are missing, on real resources and services (+contact points).
    • Adding links to VO Schools (and materials) as a potential starting point and events to look after as a jump-start. Beware: VO Schools are for user, not for providers. But there are tech schools too.
    • Can we have a set of: registry and services in a sandbox to play with?

Resources (as in 16th December 2022)

• Publish your data in the VO webpage
• Newcomers session
• VO Schools and education material

Use cases