User talk:Cedric/astrowikification

Interesting but, where in your scheme the virtual observatory would fit? And how would you classify it? It aims at providing this 2nd level information you talk about working to implement and to make several different tools interact among them.--Pedro 06:13, 4 January 2007 (CLST)


 * Good point Pedro. VO was totally absent in my mind. But I must admit that everytime I started to look for VO, to try to understand what it is, how to use it, I find myself in front of hundreds of different webpages, and no clue of what I could do. Maybe you can help me out? Isn't VO purely "virtual" for the moment? I mean, where can I submit proposal? Where can I see the data? Maybe these are silly questions, but so far I just didn't get the VO concept. -- 07:00, 4 January 2007 (CLST)


 * Just thinking: VO isn't supposed to work like an observatory? I mean, people ask for observations, and gets data/results? Wikimbad, as I imagine, is public, free, and results shared for everyone. I was thinking about an automatic submission of raw data, that could then be automatically handled inside wikimbad. Or to let registered users to submit their own reduced/data + results, with a published reference associated. This is typically what I needed recently: I wanted an old Keck spectrum of a microquasar, and the guys who took it just never sent it to us. And the Keck archive are not going that far in the past. What about a database of quantitative results, with associated reduced data, by the people themselves! Of course, they must be sure of their results... :-) -- 07:23, 4 January 2007 (CLST)

Cedric, I havn't forgotten about this, and I do think it is very very important (or could become) for the future of VSOP! Just taking my time to collect some sane feedback on all this, apart from what I sent you earlier. -- $\pi$ 04:59, 17 January 2007 (CLST)