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Toward an International Virtual Observatory

Proceedings of the ESO/ESA/NASA/NSF Conference Held at Garching, Germany, 10–14 June 2002

Part of the book series: ESO Astrophysics Symposia (ESO)

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Table of contents (78 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. ASTRO-WISE - An Astronomical Wide-Field Imaging System for Europe

    • Edwin A. Valentijn, Konrad Kuijken
    Pages 19-30
  3. The Canadian Virtual Observatory Project

    • David Schade, Pat Dowler, Daniel Durand, Luc Simard, Norm Hill, Severin Gaudet
    Pages 31-36
  4. Information Hub of the Russian Virtual Observatory

    • Oleg Malkov, Olga Dluzhnevskaya, Elena Kilpio, Alexander Kilpio, Dana Kovaleva
    Pages 37-42
  5. The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: A VO Test Case?

    • Robert A. E. Fosbury, The GOODS teams
    Pages 54-56
  6. Visualizing and Analyzing Massive Astronomical Datasets with Partiview

    • Brian P. Abbott, Carter B. Emmart, Stuart Levy, Charles T. Liu
    Pages 57-61
  7. e-Science and the Grid

    • Marcel Kunze
    Pages 62-66
  8. National Virtual Observatory Architecture

    • Reagan W. Moore
    Pages 67-74
  9. Authentication and Authorization Architecture for AstroGrid and the Virtual Observatory

    • Guy Rixon, Tony Linde, Elizabeth Auden, Nicholas Walton
    Pages 75-79
  10. VO Activities at the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

    • Giuseppina Fabbiano
    Pages 80-87
  11. The Prototype TNG Long-Term Archive and its Interactions with the Italian GRID Project

    • Fabio Pasian, Leopoldo Benacchio, Riccardo Smareglia
    Pages 88-93
  12. Data Models for the VO

    • Jonathan McDowell
    Pages 101-105
  13. Scalable Metadata Definition Frameworks

    • Raymond Plante
    Pages 106-111
  14. VOTable: Tabular Data for the Virtual Observatory

    • François Ochsenbein, Roy Williams, Clive Davenhall, Daniel Durand, Pierre Fernique, Robert Hanisch et al.
    Pages 118-123
  15. A C + + Parser for VOTables

    • Ajit Kembhavi, Hrishikesh Hegde, Sonali Kale, P. R. Krishnan, Vasudev Navelkar, T. M. Vijayaraman
    Pages 124-128

About this book

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.

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