The European Virtual Observatory - VO Technology Centre

Project Information

VO-TECH

Grant agreement ID: 11892

Project closed

Start date 1 January 2005

End date 31 December 2008

Funded under

• Research infrastructures: Specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration: "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Total cost € 4 605 840,00

EU contribution € 3 291 600,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
United Kingdom

Objective

A Design Study will be undertaken aimed at completing all technical preparatory work necessary for the construction of the European Virtual Observatory (Euro-VO). Euro-VO is a specifically European implementation of the Virtual Observatory (VObs) concep t, and will produce a world leading infrastructure providing a unified virtual data resource and the ability to peform complex data discovery and manipulation tasks across the whole range of astronomy. Access to data and tools will be equally good across Europe, regardless of location. This will require establishing an alliance of data centres, and a VObs facility centre in support of the community, but crucially requires the construction of an infrastructural glue of software components, in the context of rapidly evolving background developments in IT and the grid. The VO-TECH project aims specifically at feasibility studies and design work aimed at integrating such new technologies into the Euro-VO. Key IT advances to build on are in intelligent reso urce discovery (ontology and the semantic web), data mining, and visualisation capabilities. These will be integrated via global astronomical interoperability standards coupled with the latest distributed grid computing services. Additionally this projec t covers design and preparatory work to ensure that data from the major European telescopes and facilities (as represented by the Opticon and RadioNet networks) is fully accessible through the Euro-VO.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › knowledge engineering › ontology
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › data science › data mining
• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › internet › semantic web

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Programme(s)

• FP6-INFRASTRUCTURES - Research infrastructures: Specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration: "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Topic(s)

• INFRASTR-4 - Design studies: feasibility studies and technical preparatory work for new infrastructures with European dimension

Call for proposal

FP6-2003-INFRASTRUCTURES-4
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Funding Scheme

DS-SSA - Design studies implemented as Specific Support Actions

Coordinator

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Old College, South Bridge ; EDINBURGH ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data

Participants (5)

EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2 ; GARCHING
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: University Road ; LEICESTER
• Total cost: No data

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: The Old Schools, Trinity Lane ; CAMBRIDGE
• Total cost: No data

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 23, rue du Loess ; STRASBOURG
• Total cost: No data

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Viale del Parco Mellini 84 ; ROMA
• Total cost: No data