Euro-VO International Cooperation Empowerment (EuroVO-ICE)

WP3 Coordination of take-up activities (ESO)

WP Lead: Evanthia Hatziminaoglou (ESO)

On-line scientific tutorials can be found on the Euro-VO site at http://www.euro-vo.org/pub/fc/workflows.html

Objectives

Serve the science community in its uptake of the VObs-enabled data infrastructure, to

• Trigger advanced usage of VObs capabilities
• Gather feedback about the science community needs
• Gather feedback on the adaptation of VObs tools to these needs

Description of work

• Management of the Euro-VO Science Advisory Committee input and feedback
• Preparatory work for and organization of the Hands-on Workshop to help astronomers utilize at best European digital archives
• Feedback on the adaptation of VObs tools to fulfill the science community needs to WP4, national projects and the IVOA

Euro-VO Science Advisory Committee

Information about the Euro-VO SAC and its activities is gathered on the Euro-VO web site http://www.euro-vo.org/pub/fc/sac.html.

SAC meetings during EuroVO-ICE: 10 February 2011, ESO, Garching; 27 September 2011, Santander, Spain.

EuroVO-ICE School

The EuroVO-ICE Hands-on Workshop has been held on 21-24 March 2011 in Strasbourg, France.

Workshop web site: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/voschool2011/index.html