VO-TECH
Abstract: A Design Study will be undertaken aimed at completing all technical preparatory work necessary for the construction of the European Virtual Observatory (Euro-VO). Euro-VO is a specifically European implementation of the Virtual Observatory (VObs) concept, and will produce a world leading infrastructure providing a unified virtual data resource and the ability to perform complex data discovery and manipulation tasks across the whole range of astronomy. Access to data and tools will be equally good accross Europe, regardless of location. This will require establishing an alliance of data centres, and VObs facility centre in support of the community, but crucially requires the construction of an infrastructural glue of software components, in the context of rapidly evolving background developments in IT and the grid. The VO-TECH project aims specifically at feasibility stidies and design work aimed at integrating such new technologies into the Euro-VO. Key IT advances to build on are in intelligent resource discovery (ontology and the semantic web), data mining, and visualisation capabilities. These will be integrated via global astronomical interoperability standards coupled with the latest distributed grid computing services. Addionationally this project covers design and preparatory work to ensure that data from the major European telescopes and facilities (as represented by the Opticon and RadioNet networks) is fully accessible through the Euro-VO.
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