Introduction to the AVO Project

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• Introduction to the AVO Project
• Dr. Peter Quinn
• Project Leader

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Project Aims

• To lay the scientific and technical foundations
  for a European Virtual Observatory
• To join the capabilities of new Grid technologies
  to astronomical research
• To form a collaborative alliance with
  international efforts on Virtual Observatories

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Project Team
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Work Program

• Science
• Define key requirements for large, complex
  multi-wavelength astronomy projects

• Interoperability
• Development and prototyping of new standards for
  data content, data description and data discovery

• Technology
• Study and prototyping of Grid technologies that
  allow distributed computation, manipulation and
  visualization of data

Demonstrations
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International Virtual Observatory Alliance

• Resources
• 25 million over the next 3-5 years

Mission To facilitate the international
coordination and collaboration necessary for the
development and deployment of the tools, systems
and organizational structures necessary to enable
the international utilization of astronomical
archives as an integrated and interoperating
virtual observatory
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Roadmap

• June 2002 - IVOA formed
• January 2003 Coordinated Demo 1
• New, introductory functionality
• Finding and solving hard problems!
• August 2003 International Demo
• IAU Sydney, international access
• January 2004 Coordinated Demo 2
• Definition of new standards for data access and
  data discovery
• January 2005 Coordinated Demo 3
• Complex new functions for knowledge discovery
  the Grid

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The Future
GridNet
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2005