Virtual Observatories
1. IVOA
- International Virtual
Observatory Alliance (IVOA)
- IVOA
Interoperability meeting (=Working group meeting)
12-16 May 2003, IoA, Cambridge, UK
Working groups
- Resource Registry
- Unified Content
Descriptors (UCD)
- Data Models (DM)
Data Access Layer (DAL), SIA
VOTable
| VOTable
Documentation
- VO Query Language
(VOQL)
2. Virtual Observatories of the countries
- Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
(AVO)
- Australian VO
| Australian VO 2
- Canadian VO (CVO)
- Chinese VO
(China-VO)
- German Astrophysical VO (GAVO)
- Japanese Virtual Observatory (JVO)
- National Virtual Observatory (NVO)
- USA
- Russian VO (RVO)
3. Other VOs
- Sky View
4. Conferences
- IAU JD 08, Large telescopes & Virtual
observatory: Visions for the future 17-19 July 2003,
Sydney, Australia
- ANITA (Australian National
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics) 2003. 1. 28-29 Observing the Synthetic
Universe: Theoretical Astrophysics and the Virtual Observatory
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The Virtual Observatory in Australia Workshop 2002. 11. 27-28
- Astronomical Data
Analysis Software
& Systems (ADASS) XII 2002. 10. 13-16 Baltimore, Maryland USA
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SPIE
Conference Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation,
Session AS 13 on Virtual Observatories, 2002. 8., Waikoloa, Hawaii
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2002 June 10-14
Conference at Garching, Germany
Toward an International Virtual Observatory:
Scientific Motivation, Roadmap for Development and Current Status
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AAS
Special Session - Building a Virtual Observatory 2002. 6. 6,
Albuquerque, USA
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Virtual
Observatory - discussed in Chile 2002. 4. 22
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NVO Conference
(13-16 June 2000, Caltech) Virtual Observatories of the Future
(ASP Conference Series, Vol. 225)
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IVOA events
and Meetings (IVOA Twiki)
5. Related sites
-
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Process Document
| OWL Web Ontology Language Reference
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Digital Dig - Data mining in Astronomy (ASP)
- Semantic web
- Open Grid Services Architecture
(grid)
| mono
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Grid Computing
- vo forum
- NAOJ - SMOKA Science Archive
- NAOJ - Digitized Sky Survey,
IRAS Sky Survey Atlas (ISSA), Green Bank Sky Map
| NAOJ - DSS Wide-Field
- OECD - Global Science Forum (GSF)
| OECD GSF
(2002.1.31-2.1)
| Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD)
- STIMA (Scientific & Technological
Information Management Association)
- Elixir CFHT
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Virtual Observatory Development (Posted on January 2003)
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Contributions at astro-ph
6. Related articles
Ian Foster 2003 April, The Grid: Computing without bounds,
Scientific American, 60-67
James C. White II 2003 March-April, Seeing the sky in a whole new way,
Mercury, 37-41
Geoff Brumfiel 2002 November 21, The heavens at your fingertips,
Nature, 420, 262-264
David P. Anderson, & John Kubiatowicz 2002 March, The Worldwide computer,
Scientific American, 28-35
Tony Feder 2002 February, Astronomers Envision Linking World Data Archives,
Physics Today, pp. 20-22
Ian Foster 2002 February, The Grid: A New Infrastructure for 21st Century
Science, Physics Today, pp. 42-47
Alexander Szalay & Jim Gray 2001 September 14, The World-Wide Telescope,
Science, Vol. 293, pp. 2037-2040
Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, & Ora Lassila 2001 May, The Semantic web,
Scientific American, 28-37