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. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- 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)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2003-INFRASTRUCTURES-4
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
DS-SSA - Design studies implemented as Specific Support Actions
Coordinator
EDINBURGH
United Kingdom
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