2
October 2002
De
Young/NVO-Codata
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Evolving Standards
•Astrophysics
has a good track record
•FITS:
universally used to share low level data
–Individual
images, tables, files
•But:
new industry standards emerging
–XML,
SOAP
•Requirements
of modern data exchange:
–More
dynamic (streams, queries)
–Merging
heterogeneous sources