The VO-Dance web application at the IA2 data center

Marco Molinaro; Cristina Knapic; Riccardo Smareglia

doi:10.1117/12.924816

24 September 2012 The VO-Dance web application at the IA2 data center

Marco Molinaro, Cristina Knapic, Riccardo Smareglia

Proceedings Volume 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II; 845105 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924816
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

Italian center for Astronomical Archives (IA2, http://ia2.oats.inaf.it) is a national infrastructure project of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (Istituto Nazionale di AstroFisica, INAF) that provides services for the astronomical community. Besides data hosting for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) Corporation, the Galileo National Telescope (Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, TNG) Consortium and other telescopes and instruments, IA2 offers proprietary and public data access through user portals (both developed and mirrored) and deploys resources complying the Virtual Observatory (VO) standards. Archiving systems and web interfaces are developed to be extremely flexible about adding new instruments from other telescopes. VO resources publishing, along with data access portals, implements the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) protocols providing astronomers with new ways of analyzing data. Given the large variety of data flavours and IVOA standards, the need for tools to easily accomplish data ingestion and data publishing arises. This paper describes the VO-Dance tool, that IA2 started developing to address VO resources publishing in a dynamical way from already existent database tables or views. The tool consists in a Java web application, potentially DBMS and platform independent, that stores internally the services' metadata and information, exposes restful endpoints to accept VO queries for these services and dynamically translates calls to these endpoints to SQL queries coherent with the published table or view. In response to the call VO-Dance translates back the database answer in a VO compliant way.

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Marco Molinaro, Cristina Knapic, and Riccardo Smareglia "The VO-Dance web application at the IA2 data center", Proc. SPIE 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II, 845105 (24 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924816

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