DCA QUESTIONNAIRE V0.1-1 INTRODUCTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE DATA CENTRE Introduction - The EuroVO-DCA Census questionnaire The Euro-VO Data Centre Alliance (http://www.euro-vo.org/pub/dca/overview.html) project is a Coordination Action funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Program. It aims at helping European astronomical data centres to publish their data and services in the Virtual Observatory, using standards defined by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA). EuroVO-DCA operates by coordinating the sharing of expertise, organizing Workshops, and providing assistance, in particular through the national VO projects and by technical visit of experts. The European community of Data Centres is not well identified at present. In order for the DCA to provide the best possible service to help Data Centres participate in the VO, we are conducting a census of data centres to understand their characteristics and needs. The information collected in this census will provide a snapshot of the European Data Centre Community, and will guide the preparation of workshops, tutorials and other assistance programs to help Data Centres 'publish to the VO'. European Data Centres encompass a wide diversity of data and services, and the DCA adopts a broad and inclusive definition of a Data Centre (http://cds.ustrasbg.fr/twikidca/bin/view/eurovodca/datacentresinvo). The census questions aim to capture the basic information that characterise Data Centres in terms of their content, services and current interfaces. The census is organised into 5 questionnaires: Introduction and Identification of the Data Centre (questionnaire #1 - this questionnaire) Observational Archives and Data Products (questionnaire #2) Services / Tools / Software Suites (questionnaire #3) Theoretical Archives (questionnaire #4) Theory Services (questionnaire #5) Each Data Centre is asked to fill the present questionnaire to identify itself. The acronym given as the first answer to this form will be used as reference to make the link with other questionnaires. Data Centres that host multiple archives, services, theory archive, or theory service are then requested to provide separate responses for each archive, tool or service, using the relevant form(s). Each questionnaire should take between 15 and 30 minutes to complete. Some Data Centres may not fit neatly into the categories of this census. In these cases we strongly encourage use of the 'extra information' boxes in the form. We need to get as complete as possible answers, but feel free to leave questions blank if you are not able to provide the requested information. The questionnaires are relatively detailed and we encourage you to have a look at the list of questions at: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twikidca/bin/view/eurovodca/dcacensus (pdf or Word files) before beginning to answer the online questionnaire. If you prefer, you can answer by filling the Word questionnaires available on this webpage instead of the on-line form. For the questions of implementation of IVOA standards, please refer to the list given in http://www.ivoa.net/documents. When completed, please send a message to the two contacts below, indicating your Data Centre acronym and how many questionnaires of each type you have filled for this Data Centre. Contact persons: - Mathias Depretz (depretz@astro.u-strasbg.fr), - Françoise Genova (genova@astro.u-strasbg.fr).
1. Acronym of the Data Centre: This acronym will be used to identify the Data Centre in the subsequent questionnaires, so please make sure you enter the same acronym each time. 2. Name of the Data Centre: 3. Is the data centre distributed in different places or through different organisations? No Yes (please specify): 4. In which country is the Data Centre located? Austria Denmark Luxembourg Serbia Albania Estonia Malta Slovakia Andorra Finland Moldova Slovenia Armenia France Monaco Spain Azerbaijan Georgia Montenegro Sweden Belarus Germany Netherlands Switzerland Belgium Greece Norway Turkey Bosnia and Hungary Poland Ukraine Herzegovina Iceland Portugal United Bulgaria Ireland Romania Kingdom Croatia Italy Russia Vatican city Cyprus Latvia Republic of state Czech Liechtenstein Macedonia Other Republic Lithuania San Marino
5. If you selected "other" in the question above, please specify: 6. Name of the Organization/Institute in charge of the Data Centre: 7. Data Centre contact information: Address: City: Postal code: Webpage: 8. Contact Person: First Name: Last Name: 9. Additional Contact Person (if any): First Name: Last Name: 10. Scientific contact person (if different from above) First Name: Last Name:
11. Make a short description of the Data Centre (summary e.g. of aims, data holdings, services provided, R&D programs, etc.): 12. References describing the data centre (web page, manual, published paper, ): 13. Indicate the types of services that your Data Centre provide: Observational Archives and Data Products Services, Tools, Software Suites (e.g. SIMBAD, etc.) Theoretical Archives Theory Services Comments if required: 14. What broad scientific areas does your data centre deal with? Physical data and processes (e.g. fundamental constants, atomic line lists, transition rates,...) Astrometry and celestial mechanics The sun Solar system
Stars Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae The Galaxy Galaxies Cosmology Surveys Other (Please specify): 15. For theory data centres, does the data centre focus on one or more of the following areas of theory research? CMB Large-scale structure analysis Galaxy clusters Galaxy formation Galaxy mergers Globular cluster Open clusters Galactic nuclei Molecular clouds Stellar evolution tracks Binary star evolution Supernovae Accretion disks Gravitational waves Planetary systems Spectra Jets Other (Please specify):
16. Extra information and comments on this questionnaire: 17. Contact person for this questionnaire: Name: E-mail: Thank you for completing this initial questionnaire. You can print this page to keep track of your answers before pressing the "complete" button. Do not forget to press the "complete" button below to submit your questionnaire. You can now fill in as many of the other questionnaires as needed, in function of the services provided by your Data Centre: - Archive / Data Product (questionnaire #2) - Tool / Software Suite / Service (questionnaire #3) - Theory Archive (questionnaire #4) - Theory Service (questionnaire #5) Please remember to use the same acronym at the beginning of each questionnaire.