Toward an International Virtual Observatory: Proceedings of the ESO/ESA/NASA/NSF Conference Held at Garching, Germany, 10-14 June 2002

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Clouds Over the Twenty-First Century Virtual Observatory....Pages 1-10
Building the Infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory: An Information Technology Research Initiative of the National Science Foundation....Pages 11-18
ASTRO-WISE - An Astronomical Wide-Field Imaging System for Europe....Pages 19-30
The Canadian Virtual Observatory Project....Pages 31-36
Information Hub of the Russian Virtual Observatory....Pages 37-42
Early Virtual Science: Some Lessons for the AVO....Pages 43-53
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: A VO Test Case?....Pages 54-56
Visualizing and Analyzing Massive Astronomical Datasets with Partiview....Pages 57-61
e-Science and the Grid....Pages 62-66
National Virtual Observatory Architecture....Pages 67-74
Authentication and Authorization Architecture for AstroGrid and the Virtual Observatory....Pages 75-79
VO Activities at the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA....Pages 80-87
The Prototype TNG Long-Term Archive and its Interactions with the Italian GRID Project....Pages 88-93
Federation and Fusion of Astronomical Information: Standards and Tools for the Virtual Observatories....Pages 94-100
Data Models for the VO....Pages 101-105
Scalable Metadata Definition Frameworks....Pages 106-111
Space-Time Metadata for the Virtual Observatory....Pages 112-117
VOTable: Tabular Data for the Virtual Observatory....Pages 118-123
A C + + Parser for VOTables....Pages 124-128
ASTROVIRTEL: Tools and Operations....Pages 129-133
Towards an AVO Interoperability Prototype....Pages 134-139
Inter-Operability of ESA Science Archives....Pages 140-146
The AstroGrid Pilot Programme....Pages 147-152
Making Ground-Based Optical/Infrared Imaging Surveys VO-Compatible....Pages 153-166
e-Star: Telescopes and Databases as a Single Information Grid....Pages 167-170
Massive Variability Search and Monitoring by OGLE and ASAS....Pages 171-174
Statistical Analysis of Observed and Simulated Surveys....Pages 175-180
Catalogue Intersection: Beyond Basic Cross Correlations....Pages 181-186
Meeting the User Science Challenge for a Virtual Universe....Pages 187-192
Theoretical Astrophysics and the US-NVO Initiative....Pages 193-201
Artificial Intelligence Tools for Data Mining in Large Astronomical Databases....Pages 202-213
Data Mining Facility....Pages 214-219
Automatic Detection-Extraction-Classification for a Large Number of Stellar Spectra from Slitless Wide Field Spectroscopy. A Project for AVO....Pages 220-225
Star-Forming Regions at High Resolution: Interferometry for Virtual Observatories....Pages 226-231
The Astronomical Data Warehouse....Pages 232-237
The Real Astronomy Experience: Making the IVO Effective for International Planetaria and Science Centers....Pages 238-241
Enabling Outreach with Virtual Observatories....Pages 242-245
Building the MEGA Image-Subtraction Pipeline in the Era of Virtual Observatories....Pages 249-250
Visualisation Tools for Very Large Amounts of Data....Pages 251-253
Laplacean Ideology for Preliminary Orbit Determination and Moving Celestial Body Identification in Virtual Epoch....Pages 254-256
Using XML-Schema to Model Data from Present and Future Astronomical Databases....Pages 257-258
The Virtual Observatory as a Tool to Study Star Cluster Populations in Starburst Galaxies....Pages 259-260
The Master Catalogue of Stars Towards the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 261-262
UCDs: Metadata for the VO....Pages 263-264
Applicability of Emerging Resource Discovery Standards to the VO....Pages 265-266
The Astronomy Digital Library and the VO....Pages 267-268
The Digitized Hamburg Objective Prism Surveys....Pages 269-270
Aladin in the VO Context....Pages 271-272
Power Spectrum for the Distribution of Galaxies on the Sphere....Pages 273-278
The World Space Observatory (WSO/UV) Archive: Requirements for Interoperation....Pages 279-280
A Common Data Analysis Environment: Do We Need One?....Pages 281-282
Multiwavelength Studies of AGN....Pages 283-284
The CCD Sky Patrols and Plate Archives....Pages 285-286
Wide-Field X-Ray Monitoring as a Data Source for the Virtual Observatory....Pages 287-288
The UDAPAC Project - Uccle Direct Astronomical Plate Archive Centre: A New International Facility for Inherited Observations....Pages 289-290
The Russian Virtual Observatory Portal. Convenience and Attractiveness....Pages 291-291
IDHA Image Archive Model....Pages 292-293
Building Interoperable NASA Archives....Pages 294-295
 i Astro: Computational and Information Infrastructure in the Astronomical DataGrid....Pages 296-297
PRIME: A Deep Near-Infrared Survey Project....Pages 298-299
A Practical Approach to Catalogued-Data Visualisation....Pages 300-301
Multi-Object Spectroscopy: Automatic Extraction and Previewing of Spectra....Pages 302-303
The INTEGRAL Archive at the ISDC....Pages 304-306
HyperLeda: Virtual Instruments for Extragalactic Astronomy....Pages 307-308
A Galactic Model as a Useful Tool for Virtual Observatories....Pages 309-310
The SolarWeb Semantic Data Model for Describing Relationships Between Heterogeneous Solar Databases....Pages 311-313
Development of a Multi-Mission Data Server at LAEFF....Pages 314-315
The CATS Database as a Tool to Study Radio Sources....Pages 316-317
To Creation of Virtual Radio Observatory....Pages 318-320
System to Study Evolution of Radio Galaxies as a Part of a Virtual Radio Observatory....Pages 321-322
The Russian Virtual Observatory Project Insight....Pages 323-324
Possibilities for a Convenient Desktop Access to the GRID and to Virtual Observatories....Pages 325-326
Applying Data Compression Methods in Astronomical Archives....Pages 327-328
Multiwavelength Studies of Microquasar GRS 1915 + 105....Pages 329-330
Automated Data Reduction and Analysis Tools for the VIMOS Integral Field Unit....Pages 331-332
Classification of Active Objects in the Multiwavelength Parametric Space....Pages 333-334
Science Data Archives: Feedback Relations....Pages 335-336
The Hamburg/RASS Catalogue of Optical Identifications of ROSAT Bright Source X-Ray Sources....Pages 337-338