2
October 2002
De
Young/NVO-Codata
31
International Standards
•Active
collaboration among NVO, AVO, and AstroGrid on VOTable
–V1.0
released on April 15
–Basis for testing metadata models, exchange protocols,
encoding mechanisms
•Continued
development of FITS standard
–World
Coordinate System definitions
•Framework
definition
•Celestial
coordinates
•Spectral
dispersion relations
•Distortion
functions
•Time