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AstroGrid2 and Euro-VO

AstroGrid and AVOEuro-VOVO-TECH projectHow to manage the relationship

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AVO

Three year FP5 RTD programme just completing

Phase A study for European Virtual ObservatoryPartners : ESO, CDS, IAP, AstroGrid, ManchesterAstroGrid special responsibility : WA3 Technology technical reports key demo system contbns : climax Jan 2005

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AVO

Three year FP5 RTD programme just completing

Phase A study for European Virtual ObservatoryPartners : ESO, CDS, IAP, AstroGrid, ManchesterAstroGrid special responsibility : WA3 Technology

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Euro-VO

VO Facility Centre (VOFC) lead ESO

Data Centre Alliance (DCA) lead CDS

VO technology Centre (VOTC) lead AstroGrid

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Euro-VO

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Euro-VO

formal membership and MOU under construction

led by Euro-VO Exec Quinn, Genova, Lawrence

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VOTC

Loose confederationproject based new technologies for Euro-VO technology assessment concept development prototype software proposed standards

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VO-TECH

First VOTC projectFunded by EU-FP6 + partner contbnsapprox 2 x 13FTEs for 3 yearspartners AstroGrid, VO-France, ESO, INAF

formal start Jan 1st 2005

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Methodology

Four broad areas infrastructure tools resource discovery data exploration

six month sub-projectsoutput :study reports, designs,prototypes, proto-standards

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VO gap analysis

GlueData FederationServices

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Glueworkflow : good startdistributed storage : crude startsingle sign on : simple plans, no deployment global issue

resource discovery : good start registry : ok dictionary : ok semantics : next key step

global wave : sem.web, ontologyfind a pragmatic next step

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Data Federation

data interoperability : good startdata integration : crude start : circle xmatch multi-match; probabilistic prior information not just tables !

science -- algorithms -- codeneed semantics "what can I do with this data?"

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Services

data access : good startdata query : good startdata manipulation : bare start this is the goldmine tools : viewing, plotting, measuring : need lots exploration : multi-D visualisation, clustering analysis : FTs, model fitting, correlation analysis

much exists : needs VO integration.

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personal hot list

single sign on astro soln / industry soln / academic soln

data integration what does it mean ?

semantic web / ontology AI pipe dream or real next step ?

data services whats ready to rock and roll ?

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AstroGrid2 and VOTECH

VOTECH = design studiesAstroGrid2 = engineering

is AstroGrid2 just for UK ?or is everything for Europe ?