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The European Virtual Observatory EURO-VO

The Virtual Observatory (VO) is an international astronomical community-based initiative. It aims to allow global electronic access to the available astronomical data archives of space and ground-based observatories and other sky survey databases. It also aims to enable data analysis techniques through a coordinating entity that will provide common standards, wide-network bandwidth, and state-of-the-art analysis tools. The EURO-VO project aims at deploying an operational VO in Europe. Its objectives are the support of the utilization of the VO tools and services by the scientific community, the technology take-up and VO compliant resource provision and the building of the technical infrastructure.

News & Highlights

JENAM 2011 Special Session: Science with the Virtual Observatory
Tuesday July 5, 2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia. VO projects worldwide are now moving from the development of infrastructure into the operations era and in order for for them remain viable, it is essential that they become more closely aligned with the needs of the astronomical research community. The metric of success of the IVOA and the national VO projects will be the wide utilization of VO products and services by astronomers worldwide. This VO Special Session with address issues such as: results of VO scientific applications, the interaction between VO community and other astronomers and other relevant topics. For the full schedule of the JENAM 2011 see: http://www.jenam2011.org/conf/

EuroVO-ICE School
21-24 March, 2011. The Virtual Observatory (VO) is opening up new ways of exploiting the huge amount of data provided by the ever-growing number of ground-based and space facilities. The goals of the School, held at the Observatoire de Strasbourg are to expose European astronomers to the variety of VO tools and services available today so that they can use them efficiently for their own research.
To achieve these goals, VO experts will lecture and tutor the participants on the usage of such tools. Real life examples of scientific applications will be given, some of them selected from the science cases that participants will be asked to submit at the time of registration. A large fraction of the time will be dedicated to hands-on exercises, which will allow participants to become fully familiar with the VO capabilities.
Deadline for registration is February 7, 2011. For more details, visit the workshop's web page.

The EuroVO International Cooperation Empowerment (Euro-VO ICE) project is a Coordination Action supported by the EU in the framework of the FP7 initiative (INFRA-2010-2.3.3 Research Infrastructures, project 261541), which will support Euro-VO coordination activities at the European and international levels. The project started on September 1st 2010, for a duration of 12 months.

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last updated: 08-Jan-2011 co-funded project