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Spreading the word -- current status of VO tutorials and schools

Authors :
Lutz, Katharina A.
Allen, Mark
Bot, Caroline
Cortés-Contreras, Miriam
Derriere, Sébastien
Demleitner, Markus
Heinl, Hendrik
Jiménez-Esteban, Fran
Molinaro, Marco
Nebot, Ada
Solano, Enrique
Taylor, Mark
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

With some telescopes standing still, now more than ever simple access to archival data is vital for astronomers and they need to know how to go about it. Within European Virtual Observatory (VO) projects, such as AIDA (2008-2010), ICE (2010-2012), CoSADIE (2013-2015), ASTERICS (2015-2018) and ESCAPE (since 2019), we have been offering Virtual Observatory schools for many years. The aim of these schools are twofold: teaching (early career) researchers about the functionalities and possibilities within the Virtual Observatory and collecting feedback from the astronomical community. In addition to the VO schools on the European level, different national teams have also put effort into VO dissemination. The team at the Centre de Donn\'ees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) started to explore more and new ways to interact with the community: a series of blog posts on AstroBetter.com or a lunch time session at the virtual EAS meeting 2020. The Spanish VO has conducted virtual VO schools. GAVO has supported online archive workshops and maintains their Virtual Observatory Text Treasures. In this paper, we present the different formats in more detail, and report on the resulting interaction with the community as well as the estimated reach.<br />Comment: 4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXX published by ASP, replacement to correct embarrassing typo

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2012.11909
Document Type :
Working Paper