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Astrophysical Virtual Observatory launches new web site

A new website providing information on the Commission funded Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO) project was launched on 17 December. The AVO project was initially set up under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) to carry out the necessary scientific...

A new website providing information on the Commission funded Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO) project was launched on 17 December. The AVO project was initially set up under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) to carry out the necessary scientific and technological research and demonstration programmes in order to bring about a virtual observatory for European astronomy. The project has been jointly funded by the European Commission and six other European organisations: the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Munich, Germany, the European Space Agency (ESA), AstroGrid, the CNRS-supported Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, the CNRS-supported TERAPIX astronomical data centre at the Institut d'Astrophysique in Paris, France, and the Jodrell Bank Observatory of the Victoria University of Manchester, United Kingdom. More recently, the project has been concentrating on making the virtual observatory an international initiative and efforts have been coordinated to define a new set of data standards so that it can take on a more global dimension. The AVO partners will work with all astronomical data centres in Europe to put together an FP6 IST (Sixth Framework Programme - Information Society Technologies Programme) integrated project proposal with a view to making a European Virtual Observatory fully operational by the end of 2007 The web site hosts background information and presentations concerning the project as well as films, picture galleries, useful links and an internal site area. There is also a question and answer section about the virtual observatory, where AVO leader Peter Quinn defines the initiative in his own words: 'In much the same way as a real observatory consists of telescopes, each with a collection of unique astronomical instruments, the VO consists of a collection of data centres each with unique collections of astronomical data, software systems and processing capabilities.'

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