VOEvent "Breaking News"?

[Jeffrey Kantor]

Hi Roy,

I think it is important to remember that from an LSST standpoint, both the
CSS iPhone work and the CN^2 prototype are prototypes for exploring concepts
and architectures.  The actual system may differ quite a bit ultimately, and
I expect it will support quite a few portals, some of our own development,
some via VO that we did not create or even necessarily influence but using
our data, and some with collaborating projects.  In any case, we hope these
prototypes prove the usefulness of these types of portals and streams to the
science and EPO users.  Thanks!

Jeff


On 1/31/10 4:45 PM, "Kirk Borne" <kborne at gmu.edu> wrote:

> Roy:  the iPhone app is not the same effort, but
> it is related of course, since Andrew Drake and folks
> are part of these discussions.  The CN^2 portal will
> be a web portal, whereas the iPhone app is just that.
> 
> - Kirk
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Roy Williams <roy at cacr.caltech.edu>
> Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010 6:21 pm
> Subject: Re: VOEvent "Breaking News"?
> 
>> 
>>> A prototype LSST CN^2 web portal is now being designed, with the
>>> goal of deploying it during the next year.  The alerts may be
>>> fed from the VOEventNet, or Catalina Sky Survey, or some other
>>> specific sky-monitoring survey.  This is being deployed now
>>> in order to develop and test the CN^2 concept as the eventual
>>> public information news portal for LSST.
>>>   
>> 
>> Hey Kirk, interesting story!
>> 
>> I wonder if this is the same effort that Bruce Truax and Jonathan
>> Myers 
>> are doing with Andrew Drake and me, using the Skyalert[1] software
>> to 
>> distribute Catalina[2] events to iPhones? Or is LSST developing
>> its own 
>> independent portal?
>> 
>> One of the questions I would have about the "Transient of the
>> week" is 
>> the nature of the metadata that comes with the "interesting
>> event", 
>> since it can come from any one of many streams. The VOEvent itself
>> has 
>> Author info, Spacetime info, Classification info, and Description.
>> Are 
>> these 4 the basic parts for the "Transient of the week"? How does
>> the 
>> schema match with astronomerstelegram.org or CBAT? Some other
>> metadata 
>> we are delivering[3] to LSST are magnitude, freshImageURL,
>> referenceImageURL, furtherInfoURL, findingChart,
>> findingChartImage,
>> pastImgs, otherImgs, lightCurve.
>> 
>> Roy
>> 
>> [1] http://skyalert.org
>> [2] http://crts.caltech.edu
>> [3] http://www.skyalert.org/static/jsonQueryForm.html
>> 
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