Intelligent Use of Astronomical Press Release Images

Amit Kapadia (Florida State University/ePOD)

The Web & Astronomical Images

with contextual information

Astronomical Images

lost contextual information

Astronomical Images

contextual information embeddedThe Arches Cluster

Very Large TelescopeESO/P. Espinoza

etc...Arp 194

Hubble Space TelescopeNASA, ESA and the

Hubble Heritage Team

(STScI/AURA)

etc...

NGC 2841

Spitzer Space TelescopeNASA/JPL-Caltech

etc...

The Problem

The Problem

• Virtual Astronomy Multimedia Project

• Adopt an existing standard

‣ Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform

• Extend XMP to include astronomy specific metadata (i.e. Catalog Name, Distance, Facility)

‣ Astronomy Visualization Metadata (AVM)

The Solutions

Implementation

• AVM-aware image archives

• AVM-aware software (i.e. Worldwide Telescope & Planetaria)

• Tagging Tools (Adobe Photoshop & Bridge, Python AVM Library, WWT)

ESO Development

• FITS Liberator

• Python XMP Toolkit

• Python AVM Library

• Next Generation ESO Media Archive

Demo