CODATA: Montreal September 30, 2002
International
initiatives: Different strokes for different folks
•Major
initiatives in Canada, the United States, the European community, the United Kingdom. (Australia, India, Russia)
•Each VO
group has their own view of what it means to produce a VO and what the priorities should be.
The
Virtual Observatory
•U.S.: A high-level
distributed infrastructure, tools.
•U.K.: Several thrusts:
data pipelines, ontology, data mining
•Europe: VO closely
associated with operational data centers and other groups
•Canada: VO is within the
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
•Data-centric versus
infrastructure-centric views
