Presentation during the the IAU, ESO, UNAWE, ESA Workshop on Public Outreach Information Management in Astronomy.

1. EPO Information Management in Astronomy
International Year of Astronomy 2009 and EU Universe Awareness
Pedro Russo
russo@strw.leidenuniv.nl
twitter: @pruss | @unawe

4. international year of astronomy 2009
global website
www.astronomy2009.org
Time Frame: 2007 - 2010
Language: English
Target Audience:
‣ Single Point of Contacts
‣ Global Projects Chairs
‣ Other event Organisers
‣ Journalists

5. international year of astronomy 2009
global website
Main Use Cases:
‣ Find resources )Logos, promo video, presentations(
‣ Find National Contact Points )and national websites(
‣ IYA2009 background information )goals, objectives(
‣ Updates )announcements, press releases, etc.(

6. international year of astronomy 2009
global website
Main Modules
‣ Updates Module
‣ Resources
‣ National/Organisational Single Points of Contact

7. international year of astronomy 2009
national nodes

8. international year of astronomy 2009
resources

9. international year of astronomy 2009
admin console

10. international year of astronomy 2009
some stats
Number of updates: 1068 )average: 1 update/day(
Number of press releases: 36
Number of SPoCs: 218
Number of Resources: 530
Number of Pages: 141

11. international year of astronomy 2009
some stats
Opening Event 100 Hours of Astronomy Total Solar Eclipse
)UNESCO, Paris(

12. international year of astronomy 2009
some stats
Sources Top Content
1. google 516,778 1. Front page / 1,047,586
2. (direct) 314,080 2. /component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ 162,672 (old joomla links/
redirects) !!
3. antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov 25,897
3. /general// 108,866
4. iau.org 24,466
4. /globalprojects// 91,678
5. yahoo 18,828
5. /resources// 91,556
6. spacetelescope.org 17,561
6. /resources/branding// 85,344
7. google.com 14,449
7. /organisation/nodes/national// 69,834
8. experiencetheplanets.com 14,304
8. /globalprojects/cornerstones/galileoscope// 66,479
9. twitter.com 11,551
9. /resources/multimedia/videos// 54,320
10. 100hoursofastronomy.org 10,856
10. /news// 51,711

14. Universe Awareness
global website
www.unawe.org
Time Frame: )2006( 2010 - 2013+
Language: English
Target Audience:
‣ UNAWE network members )56 Countries(
‣ Astronomy Educators
‣ Science Educators
‣ Students interested in educational and public outreach

15. Universe Awareness
vision for the global website
Learning, doing and improving–together

16. Universe Awareness
building blocks for the global website
POST: Spark new ideas, conversations and actions.
DO: Discovery good resources, contacts and ideas to use
and implement.
SHARE and CONNECT:Through social networks, on-line
platforms, networks, etc..

17. universe awareness
global website
Main Use Cases:
‣ Discover educational resources
‣ Find National Contact Points )and national websites(
‣ Explore Space Scoops:Astronomy news for children
‣ Read Updates )announcements, press releases, etc.(

18. universe awareness
global website
Main Modules
‣ Announcements Module
‣ Space Scoop Module )with translations(
‣ National Contacts
‣ Educational Materials

19. unawe.org
national programmes

20. unawe.org
educational material

21. unawe.org
Space Scoop

22. universe awareness int website
some stats )July 2011 - March 2013(
Number of updates: 210 )~2/3 update/week(
Number of press releases: 5
Number of Space Scoops: 139
Number of Space Scoop translations: 1431 )21 languages(
Number of pages: 52
Number of UNAWE network countries: 56
Number of Resources: 727 ) ~ 85 educational resources(

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25. Peer Review Platform for Educational Resources
§ output in many different formats - PDF )print
quality and low-res(, .odt, HTML, epub,
mobi, etc.
§ Syndicated through document sharing sites
)Open Education Resources, Issuu,
Slideshare, TES, Scientix and other social
media networks(.
§ Current Status: Technical proof of concept

28. mobile distribution

32. On-line Educational Resources
Problems
Resources are difficult to find, too many educational resources, too many
repositories: Search Engine Optimisation
Excellent resources are almost impossible to find: Quality Assessment

33. Peer Review Platform for Educational Resources
§ A platform for astronomy communicators to discover, review, redistribute,
submit and remix educational resources
§ A platform to review and obtain objective guidance on the resources, have
successful resources published in a central repository and receive IAU
approval/accreditation.

34. Peer Review Platform for Educational Resources
1.Reuse - e.g., make a digital copy of the content
2.Revise - e.g., translate the content into another
language or modify a learning activity
3.Remix - e.g., incorporate the content into other
content
4R Resource Repository
Model (David Wiley, 2009)
4.Redistribute - e.g., give a copy of the content to a
friend

35. Peer Review Platform for Educational Resources
4R Resource Repository 5R Resource Repository Model )Russo et al.
Model
2012 in prep.(
+1 : Review: Content and quality reviewed )and
improved( by the community peers

36. Editorial Board
Distribution
Submission Editor/Curator 2 Reviewers Publication Translation
‣ Astronomer
‣ Educator Evaluation
Report
How to implement this workflow in Djangoplicity?

39. universe awareness
network dashboard
Analytics for UNAWE network
‣ Event registration
‣ Reporting platform
‣ Related news aggregator
Potential collaboration with IAU OAO event management platform

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