Triennial report of IBVS
IAU General Assembly, Prague, 2006
Oláh, K.; Jurcsik, J.; Holl, A.; Kövári, Zs.
Konkoly Observatory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525 P.O.Box 67, Hungary;
WWW: http://www.konkoly.hu/IBVS/IBVS.html
I. The printed version
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Fig. 1. Published issues of IBVS from the beginnings till the present.
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Fig. 1b. IBVS citations in ADS.
Editorial Board
During the last three years the Editorial Board of IBVS was the following:
- B. Gänsicke
- G. Handler (chair)
- L. Kiss
- S.S. Saar
- M. Schreiber
- D. Sasselov
- B. Skiff
and ex-officio members: J. Christensen-Dalsgaard (Div. V.), C. Aerts (Comm. 27.), A. Gimenez (Comm. 42.).
Advisors: D. Kurtz, N.N. Samus, C. Sterken, L. Szabados
We would like to thank them for their help and support during the past three years.
II. The electronic IBVS
- Grant
- 2000 USD, Open Society Institute, 2004 (for open access journals)
- ~ 4250 USD, Ministry of Informatics and Communication (IHM), 2004
(metadata creation, PhysHun)
- IBVS has some VO features now
- Using CDS Aladin as a visualization tool for photometric sequences
- VOTable: used for the communication with the Aladin server;
representing time-series photometry data (experiments)
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Fig. 2. Aladin as a visualization tool
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Fig. 3. GRID-like functionality: using software tools available on the Internet
- Figures & data files
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Fig. 4. IBVS can present each figure separately, offering download options and metadata
- Linking
- GCVS (IBVS: GCVSobj macro; GCVS: reference links to IBVS in
the query results)
- AAVSO/VSX? SIMBAD?
- IAU Archives of Unpublished Observations of Variable Stars files
- 42 files are on-line at IBVS
- further 15 is in preparation
- master list (IBVS; PASP; CDS Bull; IAU Transactions)
- cooperation with CDS, help of the Odessa DC
- IBVS standpoint
- Plans
- semantic search (objects instead of identifiers, figures, data)
- use of object name resolvers
- use of OAI-PMH protocol (communicating metadata to ADS)
- Standardization issues
- data files: VOTable format
- markup
- Automating information flow
- Information from IBVS goes to other databases, bibliographies
It could be automated
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Fig. 5. Data flow from IBVS to other resources
Papers, talks on the electronic IBVS:
- Electronic Journals as Databases, A. Holl: 2004, Proceedings of ADASS 2003, ASP Conf. Ser. 314, p. 229
- IBVS and the data from robotic observatories, A. Holl: 2004, Astronomische Nachrichten, 325, No. 6-8, pp 610-612
- From the AGE to the electronic IBVS: the past and the future of astronomical journals, A. Holl: 2004, Acta Historica Astronomiae, Vol. 24., pp 224-232
- Electronic journals and VO techniques, A. Holl: 2004, iAstro workshop, RAL (UK)
- Interlinking between IBVS and WFPDB, A. Holl: 2004, iAstro workshop, Sofia (Bulgaria)
- Time Series Photometry Data: Standard Access, Standard Formats, A. Holl: 2006, Poster, The Future of Photometric, Spectrophotometric and Polarimetric Standardization, Blankenberge (Belgium), 8-11 May 2006
- Observations and publications in the VO: is the VO only for Big Science?, A. Holl: 2006, Library and Information Services in Astronomy V., Cambridge, MA, USA, 19-21 June, 2006