The Variable Star One-shot Project, and its little child: Wikimbad.

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.
Referencia bibliográfica

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

Fecha de publicación:
10
2008
Número de autores
23
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0
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0
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Descripción
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.