Self-study course for new users of VAMDC

• Glossary of terms for VAMDC
• User guide for portal
  • Introduction
  • Home
  • VAMDC Databases
  • Disclaimer
  • Advanced query
  • Guided query
  • Query Results
  • Saved queries
  • Info
  • Feedback
  • Login and Register
• Extracting data tables from query results
  • Task 1: capture a line list using the general XSAMS-viewer
  • Task 2: capture a line list using the dedicated viewer for atomic spectroscopy
  • Task 3: extract collision data with the dedicated processor
• The SPECTCOL client tool
  • Presentation
  • Task 1: Discovering database content
  • Task 2 : Transitions search
  • Task 3 : Collisions search
  • Task 4 : Grouping data
• Specview
  • What is Specview?
  • Using Specview
  • Using Simple Application Messaging Protocol in Specview
• VAMDC and PDL co-integration
  • A brief introduction to PDL
  • VAMDC exposed as PDL service
  • Task 1: Running the PDL client
  • Task2: Running the Taverna Plugin
  • Task3: Bonus, invoking the VAMDC service from the command line or from a Browser
• The XSAMS file format and TAP Validator application
  • Task 1: Find some spectroscopic data
  • Task 2: Starting the Tap Validator tool
  • Task 3: Checking an XSAMS document
  • Task 4 : Checking a VAMDC Node
• Python Scripting
  • Sending a query to a single node
  • Handling the returned data
  • Send data to a Processor
  • Use the registry to find data nodes
  • Further examples
• Using VAMDC Java libraries
  • Presentation
  • Task 1 : Querying the registry
  • Task 2 : Querying a node
  • Task 3 : Reading a XSAMS file

This tutorial is for scientists intending to use VAMDC data in their own research, and it consists in a series of exercises. In each exercise, there is an introduction, some tasks for you to perform on the VAMDC system and notes on the expected results.

Some exercises do not tell you exactly how to do each step: that information is in the VAMDC user guides which are separate documents. You should use the links from the exercise pages into the guides to find the details.

You can work through the exercise at your own pace. Feel free to skip exercises that do not interest you. However, within a given exercise you should attempt all the tasks in order as some tasks depend on the results of previous tasks.