GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science
Combination of Collaborative Project and Coordination and Support Action:
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3)
Kick-off Meeting
Madrid, 4 - 6 October 2011
WP 2. Dissemination, public outreach and future plans
COORDINATOR: INAF
DEPUTY: IAC
Index of Content
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Introduction
Objectives
Deliverables & Schedule (dates)
Tasks
– Methodology
– Technologies
– Criticalities
– People and Partners responsible for each task
Milestones
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Introduction
• The WP2 keyword is “communication”
• All the information the “world” should/wants to know about us
and more:
• What’s the GLORIA goal?
• What and who are we targeting?
• What are we doing or have planned to do?
• What can the “community” expect from GLORIA?
• What’s going to happen after the project end?
• All what you have always dreamed to know about robotic
telescopes and you never asked…
• …
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Objectives
• Raising awareness among users of the network in order to become
“citizen scientists”
• To make GLORIA more widely known in order to attract newcomers to
the GLORIA community:
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To increase the number of users doing research
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To increase the number of telescopes
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To increase the number of experiments
• To organise and disseminate generated knowledge, including
publications, conferences, web-based materials, multimedia and
visualisation, pedagogical material
• Internal and external communications
• To promote the project's long term sustainability, including the
involvement of funders and the preparation of a business plan to ensure
longevity for the network into the future
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Deliverables & Schedule
• Feb 2012: Written didactic activity manuals for parallel activities around
astronomical events for scholars (June 6, 2012 Venus Transit)
• Apr 2012: Set of terms and conditions for members and users of the
network
• Apr 2012: Dissemination Plan
• Jul 2012: Written didactic activity manuals for parallel activities around
astronomical events for scholars (Nov 13, 2012 Total Solar Eclipse)
• Apr 2013: Multimedia materials for outreach/education
• Jul 2013: Written didactic activity manuals for parallel activities around
astronomical events for scholars (Nov 3, 2013 Total Solar Eclipse)
• Dec 2013: Written didactic activity manuals for parallel activities around
astronomical events for scholars (Apr 15, 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse)
• Apr 2014: Future Network Plan
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Task 2.1 – WEB & Social networks
• Coordinators: UPM + INAF
• Open issues:
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Server configuration & management [web renting: 30k€?]
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Triple purpose: communicate, operate (2.0), coordinate
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CMS-based, wiki? Which one? Layout? Public/private area?
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Rich Internet Application-like (RIA) pages?
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Multi-language policy?
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(S)FTP area for multimedia material upload?
YouTube/Twitter/Facebook interaction & channels. What else?
• GLORIA official emails sender toward public/press, e.g.:
info@gloria-project.eu? info.es@gloria-project.eu? …
press@gloria-project.eu? press.es@gloria-project.eu? …
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Task 2.1 – WEB & Social networks
Some examples from INAF and EU projects:
multimedia site
facebook page
youtube channel
http://www.media.inaf.it/
http://www.facebook.com/
media.inaf/
http://www.youtube.com/u
ser/inaftv
twitter channel
Repository
press office
http://twitter.com/mediainaf/
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Task 2.2 – Broadcasting Events
• Coordinator: IAC (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
• Goal: Live internet broadcasting of Astronomical Events (3 eclipses & 1
transit).
• Objective: Astronomy outreach & GLORIA publicity.
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Task 2.2 – Broadcasting Events
• Background (more information sky-live.tv).
Total Solar Eclipses (2008-Russia, 2009-China, 2010-Easter Island-Chile).
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Task 2.2 – Broadcasting Events
• Background (more information sky-live.tv).
Total Lunar Eclipses (2010-2011 Teide mountain)
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Task 2.2 – Broadcasting Events
• Background (more information sky-live.tv).
Northern lights (2011-Greenland).
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Task 2.2 – Broadcasting Events
• Proposed events.
E1. 5th-6th June 2012: Transit of Venus (6 hours from 22:10-04:47 GMT). Locations: Sapporo,
Japan; Cairns, Australia; Tromso, Norway.
E2. 13th November 2012: Total Solar Eclipse (2 minutes from 20:38-20:40 GMT). Location:
Oak Beach, Australia.
E3. 3rd November 2013: Total Solar Eclipse (1 minute from 13:55-13:56 GMT). Location:
Lopé N.P, Gabon.
E4. 15th April 2014: Total Lunar Eclipse (3 hours from 05:58-08:24 GMT). Locations: Cusco,
Peru; Teide volcano, Spain.
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Task 2.2 – Broadcasting Events
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Proposed live internet broadcast (window connections).
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Task 2.2 – Broadcasting Events
• Technical issues.
1.- On site internet connection  Inmarsat satellite (10K€ / 7 sites).
2.- Video repository  YouTube channel.
3.- Live languages Spanish & English (two presenters).
4.- Live Broadcast problems.
P1. Client internet access to web site.
P2. Video streaming.
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Task 2.2 – Broadcasting Events
• Technical issues. Proposed solutions.
4.- Live Broadcast problems.
P1. Client internet access to web site
due high number of simultaneous
viewers.
Solution  Load Balancer using
different sync servers (collaborators)
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Task 2.2 – Broadcasting Events
• Technical issues. Proposed solutions.
4.- Live Broadcast problems.
P2. Video streaming.
Solution  UPM WP9 (P2P technology)
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Task 2.2 – Broadcasting Events
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Action list for partners Task 2.2
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Translate live (and repository) broadcasting from Spanish/English.
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Add public/private Institutions to Server collaborators.
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Contact with national broadcasting radio/TV and offer –free– video
signal.
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Task 2.3 – Educational activities for
Broadcasting events
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Coordinators: IAC
1.- Didactic activity manual intended for students (age 15-18) and another one for
teachers. Both documents are going to be translated into all the languages of the
GLORIA consortium (Spanish, English, Italian, Czech, Russian and Polish).
A1. 2012 Venus Transit-site 1,2. Try to calculate the Sun-Earth distance by comparing images
from Australia and Japan (parallax method, observational sites at the same meridian).
A2. 2012 Venus Transit-site3. Midnight sun phenomenon. Students calculate the latitude of
the observation site from images of Midnight Sun.
A3. 2012-2013 Total Solar Eclipses-sites 4,5. Relationship between the environment
parameters (Light flux and temperature) and eclipse timing.
A4. 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse-site 6. Earth shadow size derived from lunar crater timing.
Relationship with the hole in the ozone layer (climate change).
A5. 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse-site 6. Archeoastronomy and Inca culture.
A6. 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse-site 7. Teide volcano shadow and eclipsed moon. Around the
full moon during moonset shadows of objects (produced by the sun set) point to the moon.
Students will understand the phenomenon seeing, live, the shadow of Mount Teide pointing
to eclipsed moon. In the activity we will explain the phenomenon and a method to calculate
the height of a mountain from the length of its shadow.
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Task 2.3 – Educational activities for
Broadcasting events
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Coordinators: IAC
2.- Electronic format managed from a Virtual Classroom (Moodle soft open). Some experience from IAC (astroaula.net)
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Task 2.3 – Educational activities for
Broadcasting events
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Action list for partners Task 2.3
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Translate didactic activity manuals.
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Contact / inform national schools.
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Manage Virtual Classroom (Moodlet soft).
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Indicators of Success
web site visits (from 24h before event)
120000
100000
80000
60000
40000
20000
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total #
Shelios-2008
14470
Shelios-2009
36376
Shelios-2010
79443
Teide-2010
93394
Teide-2011
110000
Shelios-2011
100000
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Indicators of Success
• Number of spectators who would observe the live astronomical events
20.000 spectators x 4 events = 80.000 spectators (last 4 - 85.000)
• Number of spectators who would observe the astronomical events
prerecorded:
50.000 spectators x 4 events = 200.000 spectators (last 4 - 117.000)
• Number of schools who would participate in the astronomical activities
organized around the astronomical events:
5 schools x 13 partners x 4 events = 260 schools
• Number of citations in media (TV, radio, press, blogs, etc.):
10 citations x 13 partners = 130 citations (last event - 800 citations)
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Task 2.4 – Interactions with the Amateur
and Educational communities
• Coordinators: UCD
• Open issues:
• Which kind of interactions/involvement?
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Make them aware of the possibility to use GLORIA’s telescopes
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Introduce/promote GLORIA tech in amateur observatories
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Provide instruction and tools to make their astronomical data and
images suitable to be integrated and accessible by GLORIA users
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Schools. What else?
• Building up a network of amateur astronomers and observatories?
• Advertisement and coordination of astronomical events
• Critical issues:
• How to approach them and ask for an active role in GLORIA
promotion and dissemination?
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Task 2.5 – Multimedia for Promotion
• Coordinators: INAF
• Open issues:
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On-line material: integration with the WEB and other channels
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Dissemination and outreach material [20 k€ ?]
• Critical issues:
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Collecting material. Initial “dream box”: telescope and site photos and
videos, past events photos/videos…
• Ideas to keep the WEB alive:
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Audio and video interviews (language? Group-balanced)
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Comments and views on GLORIA by external scientists
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The telescope – group – event – people (in GLORIA or GLORIA-related)
of the month?
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GLORIA picture of the month?
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Task 2.5 – Multimedia for Promotion
Some examples from other EU projects and from INAF:
people
promo
gallery
interviews
educational
events
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Task 2.6 – Dissemination Plan
• Coordinators: INAF
• To be prepared by April 2012. Need input from all.
• Open issues:
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Interaction with DisCOSMOS? Who, when, how?
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Main targets? General public / astronomers (…) / small telescope
producers
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What about other existing network of telescopes (…) or single robotic
telescopes?
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Dissemination outside Europe: USA? Would UCH and SAO be available
to promote GLORIA, in South America and Russian-speaking regions,
respectively?
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GLORIA press office: structure, coordination, people, contacts, policy and
procedures.
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Task 2.6 – Dissemination Plan
Let’s make observatories “visible”
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Task 2.6 – Dissemination Plan
Let’s show what
GLORIA
observatories
have observed
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Task 2.7 – Workshops & Conferences
• Coordinators: UCD
• 7 working progress meetings:
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3 in Spain, 1 in Czech Republic, 1 in Poland, 1 in U.K., 1 in Italy
• Type of meeting(s): only internal, partially open, at large? Keep distinct
project meetings from open conferences?
• Planning: defining the sequence. At some particular dates/periods? Most
convenient dates for the majority of us? Etc.
• Possible topics list?
• Do not forget:
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Virtual community oriented
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Malaga workshop (next on May−June 2013)
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Task 2.8 – Business plan for the
Future
• Coordinators: UMA
• How will GLORIA continue after the project end?
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Heritage (…)
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Volunteers
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Private/public supporters
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Web site
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Data archives
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VO collaboration?
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Further financial support requests? Addressed to …
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…
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Task 2.9 – Other Outreach Activities
• Coordinators: INAF
• Here are some examples (must define schedule and resp. soon!):
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Promo video: max 5 minutes (for the general public)
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S/W installation and usage video guides (for GLORIA users)
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Presentation of GLORIA to one (or more) Science Communication
International conferences (e.g. PCST)
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Maintenance of Wikipedia pages related to the project events, in the
various languages
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Wikipedia entries for each of the 17 GLORIA telescopes (?)
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Coordination with DisCOSMOS:
• Providing them our didactic material (more languages?)
• Synergies at country level for activities with schools (Spain, UK, else?)
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WP2 (short term) Actions List
What do we need?
•From Task coordinators (who didn’t reply) ASAP:
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Work plan schedule proposal and actions list for the partners
•From each partner
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List of contact person(s)
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Foreseen Task(s) contribution
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Initial outreach and promoting material to start feeding the web pages +
internal repository
•Definition and start building the web site (propose a new/additional logo?)
•List of official email addresses
•Creation of Twitter / Facebook / YouTube channels (…)
When? 31 October 2011
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