Igor Chilingarian, Francois Bonnarel, Mireille Louys, Pierre Le Sidaner
The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) developed numerous
interoperability standards during the last several years. Most of them are
quite simple to implement from the technical point of view and even contain
"SIMPLE" in the title. Does it mean that it is also simple to build a working
VO resource using those standards? Yes and no. "Yes" because the standards are
indeed simple, and "no" because usually one needs to implement a lot more than
it was thought in the beginning of the project so the time management of the
team becomes difficult. In our presentation we will start with a basic case of
a simple spectral data collection. Then we will describe several examples of
small" technologically advanced VO resources built in CDS and VO-Paris and will
show that many standards are hidden from managers' eyes at the initial stage of
the project development. The projects will be: (1) the GalMer database
providing access to the results of numerical simulations of galaxy
interactions; (2) the full spectrum fitting service that allows one to extract
internal kinematics and stellar populations from spectra of galaxies available
in the VO. We conclude that: (a) with the existing set of IVOA standards one
can already build very advanced VO-enabled archives and tools useful for
scientists; (b) managers have to be very careful when estimating the project
development timelines for VO-enabled resources.
View original:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5192
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