SAMP/PLASTIC and astronomers

[Juan de Dios Santander Vela]

On 13/06/2008, at 16:11, Igor Chilingarian wrote:

> 3) There is an initiative among radio (sub-mm) community involving  
> people connected to ALMA and radio-astronomers to achieve the  
> interoperability between visualisation and data analysis tools.  
> Names of people involved in this project (those, I discussed  
> personally with): Thijs van der Hulst (Kapteyn Institute, University  
> of Groningen), Francois Viallefond (Observatoire de Paris). Since  
> this project is yet on its very early stage, I do think it is a good  
> point now for the IVOA Apps IG to take a contact and try to promote  
> SAMP there.


Hi Igor,
glad to see you are mentioning this.

In fact, due to our activity in the VO for radio astronomy since 2005  
(e.g. archive for the IRAM 30m and MDSSC's DSS-63 70m antennas, or  
RADAMS, the first data model for radio using current IVOA data models  
-- see IVOA Current Modelling Efforts) as well as our work on galaxies  
(AMIGA project, Analysis of the interstelar Medium of Isolated  
GAlaxies,http://www.iaa.es/AMIGA.html) and expertise using GIPSY, our  
PI, Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro, proposed  last year to Thijs van der  
Hulst (as PI of GIPSY development) a collaboration  for making a VO- 
aware, more user friendly version  of GIPSY, that would also be fully  
compatible with ALMA cubes. Our goals meshed well with their  plans  
for GIPSY, so we started to look for fundings. Recently Francois  
Viallefond incorporated to this collaboration, as you mentioned.

One of our main goals in this collaboration is providing local  
interoperability between GIPSY and other VO tools, initially via  
PLASTIC, with SAMP support coming as soon as the specification is  
mature (it might be mature enough well before our project starts.) The  
implementation will allow for backward compatibility with older  
PLASTIC-only packages.

So the Apps IG can rest assured that SAMP will be one of our  
priorities in this development. We regret we couldn't make it to this  
meeting, because talking face to face is always better, but feel free  
to  contact me or L. Verdes-Montenegro (lourdes at iaa.es) for any  
question, clarification or suggestion on the VO part of this project.

-- 
Juan de Dios Santander Vela
Diplomado en CC. Físicas, Ingeniero en Electrónica
Doctorando en Tecnologías Multimedia
Becario Predoctoral del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía

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