Ebook: Toward an International Virtual Observatory: Proceedings of the ESO/ESA/NASA/NSF Conference Held at Garching, Germany, 10-14 June 2002
- Tags: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Extraterrestrial Physics Space Sciences, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks, Computer Communication Networks, Data Structures Cryptology and Information Theory
- Series: ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA
- Year: 2004
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The book is the first thorough overview of the first important steps to develop a worldwide virtual observatory so that, in the future, it could be easier to "dial-up" a part of the sky than wait many months to access a telescope. The articles in this book present details on the status of the first efforts to develop a standardized framework for the virtual observatory, including steps towards completion and deployment of technical infrastructure, uptake by data providers worldwide, and utilization by the scientific community.
The book is the first thorough overview of the first important steps to develop a worldwide virtual observatory so that, in the future, it could be easier to "dial-up" a part of the sky than wait many months to access a telescope. The articles in this book present details on the status of the first efforts to develop a standardized framework for the virtual observatory, including steps towards completion and deployment of technical infrastructure, uptake by data providers worldwide, and utilization by the scientific community.
The book is the first thorough overview of the first important steps to develop a worldwide virtual observatory so that, in the future, it could be easier to "dial-up" a part of the sky than wait many months to access a telescope. The articles in this book present details on the status of the first efforts to develop a standardized framework for the virtual observatory, including steps towards completion and deployment of technical infrastructure, uptake by data providers worldwide, and utilization by the scientific community.
Content:
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Clouds Over the Twenty-First Century Virtual Observatory....Pages 1-10
Building the Infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory: An Information Technology Research Initiative of the National Science Foundation....Pages 11-18
ASTRO-WISE - An Astronomical Wide-Field Imaging System for Europe....Pages 19-30
The Canadian Virtual Observatory Project....Pages 31-36
Information Hub of the Russian Virtual Observatory....Pages 37-42
Early Virtual Science: Some Lessons for the AVO....Pages 43-53
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: A VO Test Case?....Pages 54-56
Visualizing and Analyzing Massive Astronomical Datasets with Partiview....Pages 57-61
e-Science and the Grid....Pages 62-66
National Virtual Observatory Architecture....Pages 67-74
Authentication and Authorization Architecture for AstroGrid and the Virtual Observatory....Pages 75-79
VO Activities at the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA....Pages 80-87
The Prototype TNG Long-Term Archive and its Interactions with the Italian GRID Project....Pages 88-93
Federation and Fusion of Astronomical Information: Standards and Tools for the Virtual Observatories....Pages 94-100
Data Models for the VO....Pages 101-105
Scalable Metadata Definition Frameworks....Pages 106-111
Space-Time Metadata for the Virtual Observatory....Pages 112-117
VOTable: Tabular Data for the Virtual Observatory....Pages 118-123
A C + + Parser for VOTables....Pages 124-128
ASTROVIRTEL: Tools and Operations....Pages 129-133