1. Todd King

2. http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/public/tking/The-New-Discovery-Paradigm.pptx

3. A data cloud built with open metadata, open services, open sharing and standard formats.  This shifts the data focus so that: “What” is more important than “Where”. (the essence of a cloud)  Virtual Observatories (aggregators) are the interface to the cloud.

4.  A System with:  Involvement of scientists in each stage of the process  Openly accessible data that are independently scientifically usable.  Every resource has a Universal Resource Identifier (URI).  Preserve all available knowledge about a resource.  Provenance  Caveats  Annotations  Associations  Publications … Trusted archives

6. Landing Page for Resource

7. Magnetometer (FGM) data from THEMIS-D spase://VMO/NumericalData/THEMIS/D/FGM/PT0.0078125S THEMIS-D: Solid State Telescope (SST): Energy flux spectrogram, electron/ion ground-calculated fluxes (30 keV - 300 keV). ( spase://VMO/NumericalData/THEMIS/D/SST/PT3S) and THEMIS-D ESA electron/ion energy fluxes and moments (spase://VMO/NumericalData/THEMIS/D/ESA/PT3S)

9. Domain Expert & Information Expert Data Provider Quality Assurance Private Repository Public Repository Service Provider Virtual Observatory Researcher Resources Generation Management Utilization Objectives

10.  Robustness  Its accessible and reliable.  Completeness  Its the most definitive source of information.  Quality Assurance  It can be trusted  Usability of Data Formats  One click rendering and analysis  Preservation  Keeping things safe for the future.  Seamless  Easily transition from data discovery to evaluation to analysis to publication.

11.  It takes effort to meet the challenges  This is best met as a social effort (many people working collectively)  Many of the challenges are being met by today’s virtual observatories in:  Astronomy (IVOA)  Planetary (PDS)  Heliophysics (HPDE)  Earth Science ()  Further refinement and enhancements are happening now  Cross discipline usage and seamless integration remain a challenge to be met.