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RSS Feeds Directory Registration for Blogs, Pod/VodCasts, Press Releases, Twitters, and more!
The following information is requested for use in the PTTU, a new online directory of the international online astronomy content producing community. This fully searchable directory will be launched as part of the Portal to the Universe.
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Our Vision:
Enabling access to astronomy multimedia resources - including news, blogs, images, videos, events, podcasts, vodcasts . . . Connecting people through content and an astronomy yellow pages . . .
Our Goals:
The Portal to the Universe seeks to provide a single gateway to online astronomy content, serving as an index and an aggregator. TPTTU will feature: news-, image-, blog- and video- aggregation; a comprehensive directory of observatories, facilities, astronomical societies, amateur astronomy societies, space artists, science communication university programs; and Web 2.0 collaborative tools for astronomy multimedia community interaction such as ranking of the different services according to popularity. Additionally, a range of widgets (small applications) will be developed to tap live into the existing resources.
Our vision for the Portal is three-fold:
- Enabling access: To aggregate (pull) from content providers incl. all astronomy-related dynamic content (e.g. RSS feeds of blogs, images, news, etc) and distribute (push) to the users;
- Index and archive: To collect and maintain a central repository of links to useful information, including resources such as educational materials and more, addresses for all astronomy stakeholders such as amateur clubs, planetariums, observatories etc.
- Enabling communication and collaboration: Create and maintain a network of all stakeholders.
Task group:
- Lars Lindberg Christensen (Chair)
- Pamela Gay (Editor/Developer)
- Fraser Cain
- Daniel Fischer
- Edward Gomez
- Suzanne Jacoby
- Mark Newhouse
- Lars Holm Nielsen
- Jan Pomierny
- Pedro Russo
- Raquel Shida
PTTU is an International Year of Astronomy Cornerstone Project
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