Gilles Landais

Software engineer at the Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory (CDS team).
Technichal manager of the VizieR catalogue service.

Recent activities in the VizieR service

  • Expand the VizieR catalogue service with Associated data (spectra/images)
  • Core Trust Seal (CTS) certification
  • Support of the technicals aspects of VizieR: developments, mirrors, databases...
  • SI Renewal
    • Search engine (ElasticSearch), positional indexation (MOCS), DOI
    • ingestion workflows (cooperation with editors A&A, AAS and ADS)

IVOA activities

Database activities

  • Developpement of a positional PostgreSQL index H3C based on HEALPix
  • Developpement and deployments of the table Access protocols (TAP/ADQL (=Astronomical Data Query Langage)) for VizieR.

Teach Python to the M2 of astrophysics (Strasbourg)

A short (and not exhaustive) list of my topics

  • FAIR principle applied to astronomical datasets
  • Database : PostgreSQL administration and developpement (see H3C)
  • IVOA standards : in particular the standards used in VizieR:
    VOTable, Simple Cone-search, TAP/ADQL/UWS, SIA, SSA, ObsCore & ObsTAP
    DataModel (IVOA): ObsCore, MangoDM, ProvenanceDM
  • Programming language : mainly C, Java, JavaScript, Python, C++
Contact for any questions concerning the VizieR pipelines :
Authors publicationsContact the CDS team
Logs ObservationsGilles Landais or Pierre Ocvik (astronomer in charge of the VizieR contents)
Large surveysF-X Pineau or Giacomo Monari

Main services that I work on

Contact

@ gilles.landais@astro.unistra.fr
(+33)3 68 85 24 48
Observatoire de Strasbourg
11, rue de l'Universite
67000 STRASBOURG - France