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| Paper: |
VOAlerts: VO-enabled Data Service Discovery |
| Volume: |
521, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVI |
| Page: |
73 |
| Authors: |
Derriere, S.; Boch, T.; Gasiorowski, L. |
| Abstract: |
The number of astronomical data services is increasing at an accelerating
pace, and it can be difficult for astronomers to cope with this data avalanche.
With the Virtual Observatory project, new data services can be registered
in a Registry, but astronomers still have to pull information from the Registry to
discover newly published services.
Moreover, in order to discover what data (images, catalogues, spectra) are available
for their favorite sky target, astronomers have to query each service to see whether they
are relevant or not.
We present a newly developed service dubbed VOAlerts to help astronomers discover
relevant data services. The scientists simply subscribe to VOAlerts, and provide a list
of sky targets they are interested in. VOAlerts takes care of monitoring the VO Registry
for newly published services. For each new service, VOAlerts tests if it contains data
around the user's targets, and sends summary notifications to the astronomer with
details on how to retrieve the relevant data. |
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