Posting of an IVOA note on a single-dish Radio Data Model

[Doug Tody]

Hi Juan -

I think Jonathan's suggestion of posting this on the DM TWiki pages as an
active modelling topic is a good one.  Formatting the document as a draft
IVOA Note would be fine although this is not required.

It is very good to see a serious effort to develop a single dish model
consistent with the IVOA models.  There is related work going on for
projects like GBT and ALMA; I am sure they will be interested, although
the first step is to get something up which folks can look at and
respond to.  Also, there is a related modeling effort that has been 
underway for some time in connection with ALMA interferometric data.

 	- Doug



On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Juan de Dios Santander Vela wrote:

> Hi everyone, and sorry for the cross-posting!
>
> I work for the AMIGA project (<http://www.iaa.es/AMIGA.html>), and I've 
> recently earned my Master Thesis doing data modeling for a single-dish 
> antenna, Robledo de Chavela's DSS-63 70m  radio-telescope. This work has been 
> revised by people from our project, people from LAEFF-INTA (responsible for 
> the antenna in Spain), from JPL-NASA, and the IRAM (Institute for Radio 
> Astronomy in the Millimeter range).
>
> This data model is the starting point for a future archive of spectroscopic 
> observations for this antenna, and compiles several different IVOA data 
> models into one coherent data model for the archive, defining many fields 
> which were not clearly specified in the standards, and defining some of the 
> mentioned classes for this particular case.
>
> I would like to know a couple of things:
>
> a) How do I contact the DAL or DM chairmans (or both) first to publish this 
> as an IVOA note? The reason for this would be illustrating the use of the 
> separate data models when trying to build a new archive.
> b) Is there any standard LaTeX template for the IVOA document submissions, in 
> the same way there are MS Word templates?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -- 
> Juan de Dios Santander Vela
> Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC
>
>