Organization RegistrationThe following information is requested for use in the PTTU, a new online yellow pages of the international astronomy community. This fully searchable directory will be launched as part of the Portal to the Universe. |
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.
Task group:
International Year of Astronomy Cornerstone Project |