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The Phase-B FP6 Proposal 2003
General Info
EURO-VO Proposal
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| FP6 I3 VO-INT: European Virtual Observatory Integration | .pdf |
| FP6 I3 VO-INT: filled in proposal forms | .pdf |
| FP6 I3 VO-NET: abstract of proposal | .pdf |
Outlining EURO-VO
The European Virtual Observatory (EURO-VO) project is an integrated and coordinated program of work designed to provide the European astronomical community with the data access, research tools and systems, research support, data interoperability standards, data-flow practices and data centre coordination, necessary to enable the exploration of the digital, multi-wavelength universe resident in European and international astronomical and astrophysical data archives. The project is based on the research, development experience and prototypes produced in the FP5 RTD project entitled Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO) [HPRI-CT-2001-50] and the science case experience of the Enhancing Access to Large Facilities initiative ASTROVIRTEL [HPRI-CT- 1999-00081]. The EURO-VO program seeks to support and deploy Virtual Observatory (VO) capabilities to data centres and observatories across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. It will therefore be closely coupled with the two other major integrating and networking activities for astronomy in FP6: OPTICON and RADIONET. EURO-VO will act as a natural hub for coordination and integration of the new, GRID-enabled, VO research infrastructure that will be essential to the success of future large European community programs in astronomy (e.g. ALMA, OWL, SKA and Planck).
The EURO-VO will consist of three new organizational structures which will meet the objectives of the total work program and which will provide a platform for a long term European VO research infrastructure and capability. There are three fundamental EURO-VO objectives:
- EURO-VO-Objective 1: Technology take-up and full VO compliant data and resource provision by astronomical data centres in Europe
- EURO-VO-Objective 2: Support to the scientific community to utilize the new VO infrastructure through dissemination, project support, tool prototyping and VO facility-wide resources and services
- EURO-VO-Objective 3: Further development and refinement of VO technologies to meet new scientific challenges.
The three EURO-VO structures that will meet these objectives are:
- The EURO-VO Data Centre Alliance (DCA): a collaborative and operational network of European data centres who, by the uptake of new VO technologies and standards, will publish data, metadata and services to the EURO-VO and who will provide a research infrastructure through the adoption and application of GRID-enabled processing and storage facilities.
- The EURO-VO Facility Centre (VOFC): an organization that provides the EURO-VO with a centralized registry for resources, standards and certification mechanisms as well as community support for VO technology take-up, VO dissemination and scientific program support using VO technologies and resources.
- The EURO-VO Technology Centre (VOTC): a distributed organization that coordinates a set of research and development projects on the advancement of VO technology, systems and tools in response to scientific and community program needs.
The EUVO-VO structures will be realized within the schemes, priorities and instruments of FP6 by three coordinated and interdependent proposals:
- VO-INT: An I3 proposal under the Integrating Activities aspects of the Research Infrastructures Action. The VO-INT proposal will integrate aspects of all three infrastructural components of the EURO-VO. It will contain the totality of the work of the EURO-VO FC, approximately half of the work program of the EURO-VO DCA and approximately one third of the work program of the EURO-VO TC, which focus explicitly on astronomy-specific metadata issues and VO science tools.
- VO-NET: An I3 proposal under the Communication Network Developments aspects of the Research Infrastructures Action. This I3 contains the technological and infrastructural deployment aspects of the EURO-VO DCA not covered by VO-INT, which focuses on the coordination and interoperability-enabling aspects of the DCA as a networking activity.
- VO-TECH: An Integrated Project under the IST thematic priority area of solving problems with GRID technologies. The requested resources will complete the work program of the EURO-VO TC with respect to specific developments of VO technologies that implement the GRID paradigm or which depend directly on GRID middleware developments supported by other aspects of FP6.
VO-NET
EURO-VO will implement a Data Centre Alliance, a Facility Centre and a Technology Centre. The VO-NET work program contains the technological and infrastructural aspects of the EURO-VO Data Centre Alliance. The consortium consists of 8 member organizations comprising European intergovernmental research organizations, and VO national research programs and national initiatives. VO-NET will examine the national VO policies, assess technological needs, identify GRID-related systems, and identify collaborative actions with a high European-added value, well phased with the national expertise and priorities. VO-NET will implement a network of local GRID experts for technology implementation, networking assessment and collaborative action deployment. VO-NET will also start collaborative actions in two domains of expertise of European astronomy, crossing the current borders of the international astronomy information GRID: assessment of the implementation of Theoretical Astronomy Services; implementation of direct links between results published in electronic journals and the original observations stored in observatory archives.
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