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Initiators, Coordinators, and Partners[edit]
- Project initiators: Jai Won Kim, Gerard Lemson, Wolfgang Voges, Natasa Bulatovic, Ulla Tschida, Malte Dreyer
- Project coordinators: Andreas Vogler, Wolfgang Voges
- Partner
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
- Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
- In a later phase all MPIs associated to astrophysics.
AWOB in Few Words[edit]
AWOB, the Astronomer's Workbench, is a WEB based collaboration-data evaluation-publication-platform which helps scientific working groups of any size to enhance the communication and to share resources, data, results, publication texts etc. throughout the whole scientific life cycle.
Resulting e-publications and publications to the Virtual Observatory allow long term archiving of data, the annotation of metadata as well as easy access of digital outcomes by other users.
The AWOB project has a duration of 3 years and is based on experiences made by the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (GAVO).
The AWOB software will make use of the MPDL's eSciDoc environment.
Situation and Challenge in Today's Astrophysics[edit]
Astronomical research is increasingly organised in projects that can include hundreds of collaborators, often spread out over the globe. In collaborations of any size the task of sharing resources such as data products or images and texts for publications can be very cumbersome. The raw data of many instruments have to be evaluated carefully to get reasonable scientific results like calibrated images. Since the programs of such pipelines remain normally unpublished, it is difficult for users not familiar with a certain instrument to mine the data.
The idea of an Astronomer's Workbench[edit]
The project Astronomer’s Workbench (AWOB) aims to assist astronomers in these tasks by building a WEB based platform that will enhance the communication between the scientists and support the centralised organisation and collective usage of resources, ideas, data, results, and documentation. Use of AWOB should significantly improve coordination of these collaborative projects from their initial formulation to their completion as a publication. An additional focus of AWOB is to facilitate the publication of the project data to the astronomy community, both using Virtual Observatory standards, and as enhanced E-Publications.
Functional Components[edit]
To support this, the AWOB platform will contain the following main functional components:
- Explicit project and user management modules for organizing and coordinating a project and associated collaborators.
- Role based authentication and authorisation modules for restricting access to the project resources to selected users.
- Centralised storage and management of the shared data and other resources for a given project.
- Value-adding tools for resource management tasks such as search, visualisation and analysis.
- A WEB portal providing easy access to external web services, and public archives provided by the astronomy community, where possible using Virtual Observatory standards.
- Meta-data extraction and annotation for publication of finalised data products according to Virtual Observatory standards.
- One-click e-publication of data and the relevant artefacts generated during the project.
AWOB History[edit]
AWOB has grown out of two main developments. On the one hand there is the International Virtual Observatory Alliance. Developments in its German node, GAVO, have lead us to see the importance of centralised organisations of data long before final publication is taking place. Also requests for collaborative environments and self-publication of data were made to us. On the other hand the MPDL has developed tools dealing with concerning sustainable long term archiving of research data, the integration of external tools and services, and the conception of user centred working environments.
Having said this, AWOB is extending the assistance for scientists to the whole scientific lifecycle from group-building and data acquisition to e-publications and long term archiving. The implementation of AWOB is thereby supported by the tools and infrastructure already developed by the MPDL.
Scientific Life Cycle[edit]
AWOB aims at assisting the scientists througout the scientific lifecycle.
Time Schedule, Milestones[edit]
5 milestones have been defined during the 36 month period of the project. During the whole project, the feedback provided by scientists and partners will be implemented into the AWOB platform.
