Registry Information for Resources Published by the ROE

The full list of resources can be found by performing a search for 'wfau.roe.ac.uk' within the identifier in VOExplorer. As of 14/11/2007, there is a list of 44 entries when this search is performed although some are DSA duplicates and one entry represents the WFAU organisation.

Data Services

The following data service has three resource entries each, one entry for the TabularDB^? service, one for the Cone Search and one for the CEA application which provides an ADQL and cone interface.

• 6df
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
  • Missing Information
    • The columns do not contain any UCDs
• FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm) Survey Catalogue (03 April 11 Version)
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
• GLIMPSE (Galactic Legacy Infra-red Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire)
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
• IRAS Archive
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
  • Needs Changing:
    • IRAS should be expanded to Infrared Astronomical Satellite in the resource description
    • The further information link points to http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/, perhaps it would be more appropriate for the link to point to http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/iras.html
• ROSAT Archive
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
  • Needs changing:
    • ROSAT should be expanded to Röntgen Satellite in the resource description.
    • The further information link is incorrect, it should point to http://www.mpe.mpg.de/xray/wave/rosat/index.php?lang=en
• SDSS Data Release 3
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
• SDSS Data Release 5 (DR5)
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
• SuperCOSMOS^? Science Archive
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
• Test DSA for Two Micron All Sky Survey (2Mass)
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: Bad reply and querying the catalogue seems to result in a bad reply - does this catalogue need to be removed?
• Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
  • Contact: Mark Hollimon
  • Status: up
• UKIDSS DR2 World Release
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
  • Needs changing:
    • UKIDSS DR2 should be expanded to UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Data Release 2
    • Some of the UCDs have ?? instead of blank

• UKIDSS DR1 (Secured Access)
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
  • Missing Information
    • The resource lacks a description of the data.
    • The further information link points to the DSA and not a useful site such as http://surveys.roe.ac.uk/wsa/
    • The UCDs for some columns is ??, should this be blank instead.
• UKIDSS DR2 (Secured Access)
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
  • Needs changing
    • UKIDSS DR2 should be expanded to UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Data Release 2 in the resource description.
    • The UCDs for some columns is ??, should this be blank instead.

Applications

• Anomaly Detection/Fast EM (Expectation Maximization) algorithm
  • Contact: John Taylor
  • Status: up
• Fast Kernel Density Analysis Classifier
  • Contact: Mark Holliman
  • Status: up
  • Needs changing
    • The further information link point to the AstroGrid home page, this should ideally point to something more useful.
• KDE Classifier
  • Contact: John Taylor
  • Status: up
  • Missing information
    • No information about this service is provided in the resource description.
• Schlegel Dust Maps
  • Contact: John Taylor
  • Status: up
  • Missing information
    • No "subject" is provided for this resource.

Other

• A test application that echos its input. Intended simply to test WFAUs public-cec server
• Job Execution System Service Entry
• Wide Field Unit, Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh

-- DuganWitherick - 01 Nov 2007