Bibcode
Foellmi, C.; Dall, T.; Pritchard, J.; Allende Prieto, C.; Bruntt, H.; Amado, P. J.; Arentoft, T.; Baes, M.; Depagne, E.; Fernandez, M.; Ivanov, V. D.; Koesterke, L.; Monaco, L.; O'Brien, K.; Sarro, L. M.; Saviane, I.; Scharwaechter, J.; Schmidtobreick, L.; Schütz, O.; Seifahrt, A.; Selman, F.; Stefanon, M.; Sterzik, M.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomical Spectroscopy and Virtual Observatory, Proceedings of the EURO-VO Workshop, held at the European Space Astronomy Centre of ESA, Villafranca del Castillo, Spain, 21-23 March, 2007, Eds.: M. Guainazzi and P. Osuna, Published by the European Space Agency., p.15
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2008
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Description
The Variable Star One-shot Project (VSOP) aimed at providing to the
world-wide stellar community the necessary one-shot spectrum of
unstudied variable stars, too often classified as such by an analysis of
photometric data only. The VSOP has established an new kind of
observational model, where all steps from observations to spectral
analysis, are automatized (or are underway to be fully automatized). The
project is centralized on a collaborative Wiki website. The VSOP
operational model is very successful, data are continuously flowing and
being analyzed, and VSOP is now a worldwide open collaboration of people
with very different and complementary skills and expertise. The idea of
a central Wiki website has been extended by one of us to propose a new
service to the whole astronomical community, called Wikimbad. Wikimbad
is an open Wiki website aimed at collecting, organizing and making
publicly available all kind of reduced and published astronomical data.
Its strengths and a comparison with the Virtual Observatory are
discussed.