Towards a National Virtual Observatory
ثبت نشده
چکیده
In the near future several new surveys will provide tens of Terabytes of catalogued data for the astronomy community. The archives for these projects are currently being designed. Soon there will be an enormous pressure from the whole astronomical community to integrate these separate archives into a seamlessly interoperating entity. The public access of such amounts of data, and the necessary integration of the geographically distributed data sets poses severe problems, some of which are technical, some are political and some are financial. Within the framework of the Small Grants for Exploratory Research Program (SGER) we would like to explore the idea of creating a National Virtual Observatory, which would integrate most of the Nation’s main centers of astronomical data.
منابع مشابه
Maraghe Observatory and an Effort towards Retrieval of Architectural Design of Astronomical Units
Maraghe observatory was built by such engineers as Moayiededdin Orozi etc. under supervision of Khaje Nasireddin Tousi in 7th century AH. The most significant feature associated with Maraghe observatory is the fact that architecture is employed to achieve astronomical purposes in this site. The reason for preferring observatory by astronomers was the fact that these units are superior to wooden...
متن کاملOPTICON and the Virtual Observatory
The challenges of multi-wavelength astrophysics require new outlooks from those appropriate to traditional astronomy. The next generation of research scientists must be trained to exploit the potentiality now being provided for the first time. Just as importantly, the full range of available information must be indexed and made available, to avoid wasteful repeat observations, or incomplete ana...
متن کاملNetwork Measurement Virtual Observatory
Online sharing of scientific information has accelerated the research activity in various domains of science. This fact inspires us to initiate a new kind of approach in the field of network research and review some projects pointing towards this direction. Building on the experiences of similar efforts in other domains of sciences we are building a prototype node for Network Measurement Virtua...
متن کاملThe role in the Virtual Astronomical Observatory in the era of massive data sets
The Virtual Observatory (VO) is realizing global electronic integration of astronomy data. One of the long-term goals of the U.S. VO project, the Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO), is development of services and protocols that respond to the growing size and complexity of astronomy data sets. This paper describes how VAO staff are active in such development efforts, especially in innovativ...
متن کاملThe National Virtual Observatory
As a scientific discipline, Astronomy is rather unique. We only have one laboratory, the Universe, and we cannot, of course, change the initial conditions and study the resulting effects. On top of this, acquiring Astronomical data has historically been a very labor-intensive effort. As a result, data has traditionally been preserved for posterity. With recent technological advances, however, t...
متن کامل