VO Day Kiel 2016
This VO Day will take part on 2016-05-27
This course provides a basic introduction to the Virtual Observatory. The focus will be on access and analysis of table data, images and spectra. Participants will get to use Virtual Observatory tools like Topcat, Aladin, Splat and ADQL in hands-on sessions.
The VO Day will be held by Hendrik Heinl, GAVO/ARI.
Please install the software we will use in the course in advance. All of these require Java to be installed on your machine. If you have problems during installation, don't hesitate to contact us.
- JAVA as one of
- Oracle JAVA - JRE will suffice our needs,
- Zulu based on OpenJDK
- TOPCAT
- Aladin
- SPLAT-VO
You will need a laptop with internet connection.
Schedule
09:00 Welcome and general introduction to the VO tools and standards
09:30 Introduction to TOPCAT with exercises
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 TOPCAT and Aladin with exercises
11:30 SPLAT with excersises
12:15 Lunch break
13:15 Introduction to ADQL
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 ADQL exercises
16:00 Use cases
17:00 End
Our goal of the workshop is that you leave with a set of skills that enables you to
- retrieve data from the VO and how to fast access even large datasets with millions of rows/hundreds of columns
- perform a query across multiple catalogues and cross-match them
- exchange data between different VO tools
- communicate with external VO and non-VO data services
- how to use VO standards and tools and how to benefit from them
There will be time to ask questions and to bring your own use cases. We encourage you to send your use cases to us in advance to: