[csp] newcomers to the IVOA session

[ada nebot]

Dear All, 

Thanks a lot for all your comments! 

I have uploaded the latest version of the presentation to the wiki: 
https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/NewcomersIntroIVOABasics

See you later! 
Ada

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> On 19 Apr 2022, at 22:16, Vandana Desai <desai at ipac.caltech.edu> wrote:
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> Hi, Ada.
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> Thanks for organizing and sending the intro slides.
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> I tried to look at the slides from the point of view of a beginner (which I still feel I am!). Here are some comments:
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> Slide 6. It's not clear what the first bullet is. I presume these are committees? Perhaps have a bullet that says that, parallel to the subsequent bullets? Also, it's not clear what the difference is between committees, working groups, and interest groups? There is an invitation to participate, but where should a newcomer start? Guessing not the exec? 
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> Slide 9. I find the diagram confusing. Is it a flow chart? Where does it start? Usually flow charts start at the top, but that seems wrong. Where would a beginner interact with this process?
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> Slide 10. Maybe a more concrete example would be helpful?
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> Slide 13. I don't think this slide is very helpful. Most of it is hard to read. The title has a lot of acronyms that a beginner would have no hope of understanding: UCD, utypes, VOUnits, datalink
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> Slide 14. The pics at the top are great! Would consider focusing on those more than the screenshot of the standards document which currently takes up most of the slide.
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> Slide 15. I feel like this is going a bit fast for a beginner. We are defining ST-MOC by saying "space-time multi-order coverage map" but I think a beginner wouldn't know what that is.
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> Slide 16. I'm not sure this slide is useful to a newcomer.
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> Slide 18. Again, I think the screenshot is not adding much to the slide.
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> Slide 19. Even when I zoom in on my big screen, the images on this slide are blurry. Reading the words, I don't understand what this slide is about.
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> Slide 22. There are a lot of acronyms on this slide. What does REC mean? Recommendation? What does "Container --> XML" mean? I don't think you mean a software container, like a Docker image, right? Maybe format is a better word? What is the difference between "VOEvent" and "VO Transport Protocol"? Is one a data model and the other a standard for a service? What is a VOEvents validation library? What is TOM?
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> Slide 23-26. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be learning from these slides.
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> Not in the slides, but might be useful: Key terms that might come up in subsequent presentations? What background do we expect newcomers to have? Just going down the slides, I wouldn't expect everyone to know what registry, semantics, interoperability, TAP are if they haven't lived in the VO world already. However, if they are already people building pipelines and services (just not VO) then we can expect them to know e.g. metadata, ADQL. If they have mostly just done research, they might not have a good understanding of even these concepts.
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> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 7:36 AM ada nebot <ada.nebot at astro.unistra.fr <mailto:ada.nebot at astro.unistra.fr>> wrote:
> Hi Janet, 
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> Done, thanks! 
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> Ada
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> UMR 7550 Université de Strasbourg 
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>> On 19 Apr 2022, at 16:21, Janet Evans <janet at cfa.harvard.edu <mailto:janet at cfa.harvard.edu>> wrote:
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>> Hi Ada,
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>> Really nice slides.  One suggestion … add a link to the Architecture doc on the “Some useful links” page (p29)
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>> Thanks,
>> -janet
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>> Janet Evans
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>>> On Apr 19, 2022, at 9:18 AM, ada nebot <ada.nebot at astro.unistra.fr <mailto:ada.nebot at astro.unistra.fr>> wrote:
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