Paper Info
Title
AstroShelf: understanding the universe through scalable navigation of a galaxy of annotations
Abstract
This demo presents AstroShelf, our on-going effort to enable astrophysicists to collaboratively investigate celestial objects using data originating from multiple sky surveys, hosted at different sites. The AstroShelf platform combines database and data stream, workflow and visualization technologies to provide a means for querying and displaying telescope images (in a Google Sky manner), visualizations of spectrum data, and for managing annotations. In addition to the user interface, AstroShelf supports a programmatic interface (available as a web service), which allows astrophysicists to incorporate functionality from AstroShelf in their own programs. A key feature is Live Annotations which is the detection and delivery of events or annotations to users in real-time, based on their profiles. We demonstrate the capabilities of AstroShelf through real end-user exploration scenarios (with participation from "stargazers" in the audience), in the presence of simulated annotation workloads executed through web services.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2213836.2213940
SIGMOD Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
live annotations,spectrum data,google sky manner,user interface,scalable navigation,web service,programmatic interface,celestial object,astroshelf platform,different site,data stream,astronomy,big data,visualization,real time,spectrum
Data mining,World Wide Web,Annotation,Computer science,Data stream,Visualization,User interface,Web service,Big data,Workflow,Database,Scalability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.75
3
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Panayiotis Neophytou1304.50
Roxana Gheorghiu2151.62
Rebecca Hachey391.09
Timothy Luciani4154.19
Di Bao580.75
Alexandros Labrinidis61374191.50
G Elisabeta Marai713620.43
Panos K. Chrysanthis81755343.06