Dr. Mark George Allen Profile

Dr. Mark George Allen

at Ctr de Donnees Astronomiques de Strasbourg

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

The Virtual Observatory ecosystem facing the European Open Science Cloud

Marco Molinaro, Mark Allen, Françoise Genova, André Schaaff, Margarida Castro Neves, Markus Demleitner, Sara Bertocco, Dave Morris, François Bonnarel, Stelios Voutsinas, Catherine Boisson, Giuliano Taffoni

Proceedings Volume 11449, 114491S (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562322

KEYWORDS: Ecosystems, Observatories, Clouds, Standards development, Astrophysics

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The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) has developed and built, in the last two decades, an ecosystem of distributed resources, interoperable and based upon open shared technological standards. In doing so the IVOA has anticipated, putting into practice for the astrophysical domain, the ideas of FAIR-ness of data and service resources and the Open-ness of sharing scientific results, leveraging on the underlying open standards required to fill the above. In Europe, efforts in supporting and developing the ecosystem proposed by the IVOA specifications has been provided by a continuous set of EU funded projects up to current H2020 ESCAPE ESFRI cluster. In the meantime, in the last years, Europe has realised the importance of promoting the Open Science approach for the research communities and started the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) project to create a distributed environment for research data, services and communities. In this framework the European VO community, had to face the move from the interoperability scenario in the astrophysics domain into a larger audience perspective that includes a cross-domain FAIR approach. Within the ESCAPE project the CEVO Work Package (Connecting ESFRI to EOSC through the VO) has one task to deal with this integration challenge: a challenge where an existing, mature, distributed e-infrastructure has to be matched to a forming, more general architecture. CEVO started its works in the first months of 2019 and has already worked on the integration of the VO Registry into the EOSC e-infrastructure. This contribution reports on the first year and a half of integration activities, that involve applications, services and resources being aware of the VO scenario and compatible with the EOSC architecture. Within the H2020 ESCAPE project, the "CEVO" WP has one task to deal with this challenge of integrating an existing, mature, distributed e-infrastructure to a forming, more general one. CEVO has already worked on the integration of the VO Registry into the EOSC e-infrastructure. This contribution reports on the full first year of integration acitivities.

Proceedings Article | 16 September 2004 Paper

Virtual observatory standards in action

Mark Allen, Sebastian Derriere, Francois Bonnarel, Thomas Boch, Pierre Fernique, Markus Dolensky, Mireille Louys, Anita Richards

Proceedings Volume 5493, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551513

KEYWORDS: Prototyping, Standards development, Data modeling, X-rays, Astronomy, X-ray optics, Observatories, Data archive systems, Cadmium sulfide, X-ray imaging

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Proceedings Article | 16 December 2002 Paper

AVO interoperability demonstration

Francois Genova, Mark Allen, Francois Ochsenbein, Andreas Wicenec, Christophe Arviset, Alberto Micol, Robert Mann, Guy Rixon, Pierre Didelon, Simon Garrington, Anita Richards

Proceedings Volume 4846, (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461492

KEYWORDS: Prototyping, Observatories, Data archive systems, Cadmium sulfide, Standards development, Data mining, Data integration, Image visualization, Visualization

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