VOEvent "Breaking News"?

[Kirk D Borne]

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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> 
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> 
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