atomic and molecular data

Rotational (de-)excitation of the interstellar species MgC3N+(X1Σ+) with He is investigated. A two-dimensional potential energy surface (2D-PES) for the MgC3N+–He system is calculated at an internuclear MgC3N+ distances frozen at its equilibrium minimum energy. This 2D-PES, derived with the RCCSD(T)-F12 method using the aug-cc-pVTZ basis sets for all atoms, presents two minima with well depths of −1127.7 cm−1 and −59.1 cm−1. Close coupling calculations of the collisional (de-)excitation cross sections between the first 21 rotational levels of MgC3N+ by collisions with He are calculated at low energies (≤170 cm−1). These cross sections yield, after Boltzmann thermal average, rate coefficients up to 30 K. A non-LTE radiative transfer calculation is performed using the new collisional rate coefficients to model the MgC3N+ excitation in the ISM.

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

The BASECOL database has been created and scientifically enriched since 2004. It contains collisional excitation rate coefficients of molecules for application to the interstellar medium and to cometary atmospheres. Recently, major technical updates have been performed in order to be compliant with international standards for management of data and in order to provide a more friendly environment to query and to present the data. The current paper aims at presenting the key features of the technical updates and to underline the compatibility of BASECOL database with the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center. This latter aims to interconnect atomic and molecular databases, thus providing a single location where users can access atomic and molecular data.

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

FAIR principles have the intent to act as a guideline for those wishing to enhance the reusability of their data holdings and put specific emphasis on enhancing the ability of machines to automatically find and use the data, in addition to supporting its reuse by individuals. Interoperability, one core of these principles, especially when dealing with automated systems' ability to interface with each other, requires open standards to avoid restrictions that negatively impact the user's experience. Openness of standards is best supported when the governance itself is open and includes a wide range of community participation. In this contribution we report our experience with the FAIR principles, interoperable systems and open governance in astrophysics. We report on activities that have matured within the ESCAPE project with a focus on interfacing the EOSC architecture and Interoperability Framework.

In this contribution we report the current stage of the MOLecular Dissociation (MOL-D) database which is a web service within the Serbian virtual observatory (SerVO) and node within Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center (VAMDC). MOL-D is an atomic and molecular (A&M) database devoted to the modelling of stellar atmospheres, laboratory plasmas, industrial plasmas etc. The initial stage of development was done at the end of 2014, when the service for data connected with hydrogen and helium molecular ions was done. In the next stage of the development of MOL-D, we include new cross-sections and rate coefficients for processes which involve species such as XH+, where X is atom of some metal. Data are important for the exploring of the interstellar medium as well as for the early Universe chemistry and for the modeling of stellar and solar atmospheres. In this poster, we present our ongoing work and plans for the future.

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

We investigated the electron-impact processes involving hydrogen, lithium and sodium molecular cations. Rate coefficients for the dissociative recombination in domains of principal quantum numbers n ≥ 4 and temperatures from 500 K to 10 000K are reported. Considered collisional processes have an impact on the ionization level and atom excited-state populations as well on optical characteristics. The data are useful for the modeling of the kinetics of the Early Universe and for geocosmical plasma investigation.

The calculated photodissociation data of some small molecular ions have been reported. The cross-sections and spectral rate coefficients data have been studied using a quantum mechanical method. The plasma parameters, i.e., conditions, cover temperatures from 1000 to 20,000 K and wavelengths in the EUV and UV region. The influence of temperature and wavelength on the spectral coefficients data of all of the investigated species have been discussed. Data could also be useful for plasma diagnostics in laboratory, astrophysics, and industrial plasmas for their modelling.

Context. Opacities of molecules in exoplanet atmospheres rely on increasingly detailed line-lists for these molecules. The line lists available today contain for many species up to several billions of lines. Computation of the spectral line profile created by pressure and temperature broadening, the Voigt profile, of all of these lines is becoming a computational challenge. Aims. We aim to create a method to compute the Voigt profile in a way that automatically focusses the computation time into the strongest lines, while still maintaining the continuum contribution of the high number of weaker lines. Methods. Here, we outline a statistical line sampling technique that samples the Voigt profile quickly and with high accuracy. The number of samples is adjusted to the strength of the line and the local spectral line density. This automatically provides high accuracy line shapes for strong lines or lines that are spectrally isolated. The line sampling technique automatically preserves the integrated line opacity for all lines, thereby also providing the continuum opacity created by the large number of weak lines at very low computational cost. Results. The line sampling technique is tested for accuracy when computing line spectra and correlated-k tables. Extremely fast computations (∼ 3.5 • 10 5 lines per second per core on a standard current day desktop computer) with high accuracy (≤ 1% almost everywhere) are obtained. A detailed recipe on how to perform the computations is given.

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

Ethyl cyanide (CH 3 CH 2 CN) is one of the most abundant complex organic molecules in the interstellar medium firstly detected in OMC-1 and Sgr B2 in 1977 a. The vibrationally excited states are enough populated under ISM conditions and could be detected b , c. Apart from the deuterated ones, all mono-substituted isotopologues of ethyl cyanide (13 C d and 15 N e) have been detected in the ISM. The detection of isotopologues in the ISM is important: it can give information about the formation process of complex organic molecules, and it is essential to clean the ISM spectra from the lines of known molecules in order to detect new ones. The 12 C/ 13 C ratio found in SgrB2: 20-30 suggests that the doubly 13 C could be present in the spectral line survey recently obtained with ALMA (EMoCA) f , but no spectroscopic studies exist up to now. We measured and analyzed the spectra of the 13 C-doubly-substitued species up to 1 THz with the Lille solid-state based spectrometer. The spectroscopic results and and the detection of the doubly 13 C species in SgrB2 will be presented. This work was supported by the CNES and the Action sur Projets de l'INSU, PCMI. This work was also done under ANR-13-BS05-0008-02 IMOLABS. Support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft via SFB 956, project B3 is acknowledged

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

La <strong>GenOA week </strong>è una settimana di iniziative per riflettere sulla comunicazione scientifica e sulle sfide lanciate dalla Scienza aperta (Open Science) per rendere l'accesso alla Conoscenza aperta (Open Knowledge) equo per tutti. Si svolge nell'ambito della <em>International Open Access week.</em><br> +info Qui sono raccolti gli interventi* di tutte le sessioni della <strong>GenOA week 2021</strong>, organizzata da Università di Genova, IIT (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) e Consortium GARR sul tema: <strong>It matters how we Open Knowledge: building structural equity</strong>: * <em>solo degli autori che hanno concesso l'autorizzazione. Per l'intervento di Stefano Bianco: openaccessrepository.it</em> <strong>lunedì 25 ottobre 2021</strong> Open Science e Horizon Europe: <em>La Scie...

Η ανάδυση των διαφορετικών και ποικίλων δεδομένων, η πολυπλοκότητα των υπηρεσιών και οι αρχές της Ανοικτής Επιστήμης επηρέασαν τις μεθόδους και τα εργαλεία διαχείρισης και διάθεσης των ερευνητικών δεδομένων. Επηρέασαν επίσης τα περιβάλλοντα διάθεσης (δηλαδή τα Αποθετήρια και τις Ερευνητικές Υποδομές), ενώ εισήγαγαν τις έννοιες της εμπιστοσύνης (trust) αλλά και του FAIR, ακρωνύμιο με συνειρμική αναφορά στο επίθετο δίκαιος. Η ελεύθερη, γρήγορη, μαζική παραγωγή και διακίνηση δεδομένων επιβάλλει κανόνες και τεχνικές που προωθούν στους κόλπους της Ανοικτής Επιστήμης περισσότερο αξιόπιστα δεδομένα και υπηρεσίες, τουλάχιστον ως προς την τεχνική τους αρτιότητα. Θα διερευνήσουμε μέσα από μια σύντομη ιστορική αναδρομή αυτές τις εξελίξεις, τους περιορισμούς και τις μελλοντικές προκλήσεις, έχοντας ως μελέτη περίπτωσης την ευρωπαϊκή υποδομή CESSDΑ ERIC και την αντίστοιχη ελληνική SoDaNet, καθώς και τις προοπτικές που μπορεί να διανοίξει, όπως και τα διλήμματα που μπορεί να προκαλέσει, η υιοθέτηση των FAIR δεδομένων στις ερευνητικές υποδομές των κοινωνικών επιστημών.

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) has developed and built, in the last two decades, an ecosystem of distributed resources, interoperable and based upon open shared technological standards. In doing so the IVOA has anticipated, putting into practice for the astrophysical domain, the ideas of FAIR-ness of data and service resources and the Open-ness of sharing scientific results, leveraging on the underlying open standards required to fill the above. In Europe, efforts in supporting and developing the ecosystem proposed by the IVOA specifications has been provided by a continuous set of EU funded projects up to current H2020 ESCAPE ESFRI cluster. In the meantime, in the last years, Europe has realised the importance of promoting the Open Science approach for the research communities and started the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) project to create a distributed environment for research data, services and communities. In this framework the European VO community, ...

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is in its early stages, but already some aspects of the EOSC vision are starting to become reality, for example the EOSC portal and the development of metadata catalogues. In the astrophysical domain already exists an open approach to science data: the Virtual Observatory view put in place by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) architecture of standards. The ESCAPE (European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructures) project has, among its tasks, to demonstrate that the VO architecture can be integrated within the EOSC building one and to provide guidelines to ESFRI partners (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) in doing this. This contribution reports on the progress of this integration after the first months of work inside ESCAPE.

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

In this contribution we present a report on two atomic/molecular databases for collisional and radiative processes, BEAMDB and MolD, which are web services at the Serbian Virtual Observatory (SerVO) and nodes within the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center (VAMDC). Within the BEAMDB there are mainly electron scattering cross section data, but having in mind the importance of spectroscopic data obtained by particle collisions, we also provide a number of electron energy loss spectra and threshold electron spectra. Electron loss spectroscopy with its complementarity to the photon absorption data, provides valuable information on the optically forbidden atomic and molecular transitions. The MolD database contains photodissociation cross sections for the individual ro-vibrational states of the diatomic molecular ions as well as corresponding data on molecular species and molecular state characterizations. The data can be used for further applications, e.g., for non-local thermal equilibrium modeling of early universe chemistry, modeling of the solar atmosphere, atmospheres of white dwarfs, etc.

Many areas of science today, like atomic and molecular physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, laboratory plasma research etc., depend on data for ionic, atomic, and molecular collision processes. The purpose of the Special Issue “Atomic and Ionic Collisions with Formation of Quasimolecules” in Atoms is to engage a broad community of researchers to consolidate knowledge, make new discoveries, and to continue the exchange of ideas.

This paper aims to contribute to the improvement of documentation and archiving standards (conforming to the FAIR principles) for systematic Mediterranean archaeological field survey. It reports on the initial stages of work by the authors to build an extension to the CIDOC CRM ontology to accommodate concepts underlying the description of archaeological field survey data. We first constructed, based on our own experience as survey directors, a general process model for archaeological field survey; we then defined the concepts central to such survey practices in consultation with other domain experts; and we produced a draft conversion of these concepts into CIDOC CRM ‘classes’ with the help of members of the CRM Special Interest Group. While this work has resulted in a fairly robust conceptual model of field survey as practiced in the Mediterranean, we also identify and discuss several issues relating to the tension between the desire to enable comparative analysis of survey databa...

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

A comprehensive set of Guidelines to FAIRify data management and make data reusable is focusing on the topic of common policies. This compact guide offers twenty guidelines to align the efforts of data producers, data archivists and data users in humanities and social sciences to make research data as reusable as possible based upon the FAIR Principles. Each guideline has recommendations for both researchers and archives as it is recognised that different priorities may apply to each case. The guidelines result from the work of over fifty PARTHENOS, ARIADNEplus and SEADDA project members. They were responsible for investigating commonalities in the implementation of policies and strategies for research data management and used results from desk research, questionnaires and interviews with selected experts to gather around one hundred current data management policies (including guides for preferred formats, data review policies and best practices, both formal as well as tacit). Other...

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

This paper is intended to give a comprehensive overview of the current status and developments of the Paris Observatory STARK-B, MOLAT and SESAM databases which can be interrogated thanks to interoperability tools. The STARK-B database provides shifting and broadening parameters of different atomic and ionic transitions due to impacts with charged particles (the so-called Stark broadening) for different temperatures and densities. The spectroscopic MOLAT and SESAM databases provide the wavelengths, the oscillator strengths or Einstein spontaneous emission coefficients of H 2 , CO and isotopologues molecules.

The Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (, VAMDC) is an European Union funded FP7 project aiming to build a secure, documented, flexible and interoperable e-science environment-based interface to existing atomic and molecular data. It will also provide a forum for training potential users and dissemination of expertise worldwide. This review describes the VAMDC project and its objectives. Reliable atomic and molecular data are of critical importance for different applications in astrophysics, atmospheric physics, fusion, environmental sciences, combustion chemistry, and in industrial applications from plasmas and lasers to lighting. Resources of such data are highly fragmented, presented in different, non-standardized ways, available through a variety of highly specialized and often poorly documented interfaces, so that their full exploitation is limited, which make difficulties in many research fields like for example the understanding the chemistry of Solar system and of the wider universe, the study of the terrestrial atmosphere, the development of the fusion rersearch, lasers etc. The development of powerful computers stimulates the development of atomic data on a large scale. The modelling of stellar atmospheres and of the stellar interiors needs extensive sets of atomic data, including collisional broadening. For example, the PHOENIX computer code [1] developed for stellar modelling includes a database containing more than 10 7 atomic, ionic and molecular spectral lines. The development of satellite astronomy, providing a huge amount of high quality astronomical spectra produced an information avalanche and leaded to the creation of huge data collections as e. g. IUE and HST archive. For example Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSS, contains spectra of ~ 230 million objects. The problem is how to analyse such amount of data? The idea of Virtual Observatory was formulated at the end of 2000, and from 2001 the FP5 project Astrophysical Virtual Observatory -AVO was the basis for creation of European Virtual Observatory -EURO-VO ().

In this contribution we report the current stage of the MOLecular Dissociation (MOL-D) database which is a web service within the Serbian virtual observatory (SerVO) and node within Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center (VAMDC). MOL-D is an atomic and molecular (A&M) database devoted to the modelling of stellar atmospheres, laboratory plasmas, industrial plasmas etc. The initial stage of development was done at the end of 2014, when the service for data connected with hydrogen and helium molecular ions was done. In the next stage of the development of MOL-D, we include new cross-sections and rate coefficients for processes which involve species such as XH+, where X is atom of some metal. Data are important for the exploring of the interstellar medium as well as for the early Universe chemistry and for the modeling of stellar and solar atmospheres. In this poster, we present our ongoing work and plans for the future.

We review the newly established project of Serbian Virtual Observatory. In the last few years Virtual Observatories are becoming a new concept in the world of astronomy. The main aim of Virtual Observatories is to make accessible astronomical data to astronomers regardless of their geographical location as well as provide them with tools for analysis. The project of Serbian Virtual Observatory aims to achieve the following goals: 1) establishing SerVO and join the EuroVO and IVOA 2) establishing SerVO data Center for digitizing and archiving astronomical data obtained at Serbian observatories 3) inclusion of BelData/STARK-B and other theoretical and simulated data in SerVO 4) development of tools for visualization of data * Note added in proof: STARK-B database is included in the European wide Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center (VAMDC)-newly approved FP7 project.

The Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (, VAMDC) is an European Union funded FP7 project aiming to build a secure, documented, flexible and interoperable e-science environment-based interface to existing atomic and molecular data. It will also provide a forum for training potential users and dissemination of expertise worldwide. This review describes the VAMDC project and its objectives. Reliable atomic and molecular data are of critical importance for different applications in astrophysics, atmospheric physics, fusion, environmental sciences, combustion chemistry, and in industrial applications from plasmas and lasers to lighting. Resources of such data are highly fragmented, presented in different, non-standardized ways, available through a variety of highly specialized and often poorly documented interfaces, so that their full exploitation is limited, which make difficulties in many research fields like for example the understanding the chemistry of Solar system and of the wider universe, the study of the terrestrial atmosphere, the development of the fusion rersearch, lasers etc. The development of powerful computers stimulates the development of atomic data on a large scale. The modelling of stellar atmospheres and of the stellar interiors needs extensive sets of atomic data, including collisional broadening. For example, the PHOENIX computer code [1] developed for stellar modelling includes a database containing more than 10 7 atomic, ionic and molecular spectral lines. The development of satellite astronomy, providing a huge amount of high quality astronomical spectra produced an information avalanche and leaded to the creation of huge data collections as e. g. IUE and HST archive. For example Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSS, contains spectra of ~ 230 million objects. The problem is how to analyse such amount of data? The idea of Virtual Observatory was formulated at the end of 2000, and from 2001 the FP5 project Astrophysical Virtual Observatory -AVO was the basis for creation of European Virtual Observatory -EURO-VO ().

Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center (VAMDC) is an European FP7 project with aims to build a flexible and interoperable e-science environment based interface to the existing Atomic and Molecular data. The VAMDC will be built upon the expertise of existing Atomic and Molecular databases, data producers and service providers with the specific aim of creating an infrastructure that is easily tuned to the requirements of a wide variety of users in academic, governmental, industrial or public communities. In VAMDC will enter also STARK-B database, containing Stark broadening parameters for a large number of lines, obtained by the semiclassical perturbation method during more than 30 years of collaboration of authors of this work (MSD and SSB) and their co-workers. In this contribution we will review the VAMDC project, STARK-B database and discuss the benefits of both for the corresponding data users.

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is in its early stages, but already some aspects of the EOSC vision are starting to become reality, for example the EOSC portal and the development of metadata catalogues. In the astrophysical domain already exists an open approach to science data: the Virtual Observatory view put in place by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) architecture of standards. The ESCAPE (European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructures) project has, among its tasks, to demonstrate that the VO architecture can be integrated within the EOSC building one and to provide guidelines to ESFRI partners (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) in doing this. This contribution reports on the progress of this integration after the first months of work inside ESCAPE.

This paper shows that the MDA framework can be helpful for designing and implementing FAIR principles. We reached this conclusion based on a focus group interview with six experts, during which we focused on the three MDA components: mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics.

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

Based on our input to the Data Management Workshop, held during the Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2019 in Obergurgl, we provide a comparative perspective on the open data and data management requirements in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme and those of a national funder, the Austrian FWF, in this paper. We conclude that, although there are some differences in terminology and specific requirements, both the FWF and Horizon 2020 DMPs essentially cover the same ground.

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions und...

The NIFS (National Institute for Fusion Science) Atom and Molecular Database, which has been available online since 1997, is a numerical atomic and molecular database of collision processes that is important for fusion research. This database provides the following: (1) the cross-sections and rate coefficients for ionization, excitation, and recombination caused by electron impact; (2) the charge transfer caused by heavy particle collision and collision processes of molecules; and (3) the sputtering yields of solids and backscattering coefficients from solids. It also offers a bibliographic database. We recently reconstructed the database system. The main purpose of the reconstruction was to migrate the database into an open-source architecture to make the system more flexible and extensible. The previous system used proprietary software and was difficult to customize. The new system consists of open-source software, including PostgreSQL database and Ruby on Rails. New features were...

We review the newly established project of Serbian Virtual Observatory. In the last few years Virtual Observatories are becoming a new concept in the world of astronomy. The main aim of Virtual Observatories is to make accessible astronomical data to astronomers regardless of their geographical location as well as provide them with tools for analysis. The project of Serbian Virtual Observatory aims to achieve the following goals: 1) establishing SerVO and join the EuroVO and IVOA 2) establishing SerVO data Center for digitizing and archiving astronomical data obtained at Serbian observatories 3) inclusion of BelData/STARK-B and other theoretical and simulated data in SerVO 4) development of tools for visualization of data * Note added in proof: STARK-B database is included in the European wide Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center (VAMDC)-newly approved FP7 project.

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess their impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make them a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions under investigation by the consortium. Several user application examples are presented, illustrating the benefits of VAMDC in current research applications, which often need the A&M data from more than one database. Finally, we present our vision for the future of VAMDC.

In this paper we provide a comparative perspective on the open data and data management requirements in the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme and those of a national funder, the Austrian FWF. We consider that such a comparative analysis of the requirements pertaining to research data management can help avoiding duplication and assist researchers when drawing up data management plans for their respective funders. We conclude that, although there are some differences in terminology and specific requirements, both the FWF and Horizon 2020 DMPs essentially cover the same ground.