1. 1 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh AstroGrid2 and Euro-VO AstroGrid and AVO Euro-VO VO-TECH project How to manage the relationship

2. 2 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh AVO Three year FP5 RTD programme just completing Phase A study for European Virtual Observatory Partners : ESO, CDS, IAP, AstroGrid, Manchester AstroGrid special responsibility : WA3 Technology technical reports key demo system contbns : climax Jan 2005

3. 3 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh AVO Three year FP5 RTD programme just completing Phase A study for European Virtual Observatory Partners : ESO, CDS, IAP, AstroGrid, Manchester AstroGrid special responsibility : WA3 Technology

4. 4 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Euro-VO VO Facility Centre (VOFC) lead ESO Data Centre Alliance (DCA) lead CDS VO technology Centre (VOTC) lead AstroGrid

5. 5 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Euro-VO

6. 6 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Euro-VO formal membership and MOU under construction led by Euro-VO Exec Quinn, Genova, Lawrence

7. 7 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh VOTC Loose confederation project based new technologies for Euro-VO technology assessment concept development prototype software proposed standards

8. 8 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh VO-TECH First VOTC project Funded by EU-FP6 + partner contbns approx 2 x 13FTEs for 3 years partners AstroGrid, VO-France, ESO, INAF formal start Jan 1st 2005

9. 9 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Methodology Four broad areas infrastructure tools resource discovery data exploration six month sub-projects output : study reports, designs, prototypes, proto-standards

10. 10 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh VO gap analysis Glue Data Federation Services

11. 11 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Glue workflow : good start distributed storage : crude start single sign on : simple plans, no deployment global issue resource discovery : good start registry : ok dictionary : ok semantics : next key step global wave : sem.web, ontology find a pragmatic next step

12. 12 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Data Federation data interoperability : good start data integration : crude start : circle xmatch multi-match; probabilistic prior information not just tables ! science -- algorithms -- code need semantics "what can I do with this data?"

13. 13 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Services data access : good start data query : good start data manipulation : bare start this is the goldmine tools : viewing, plotting, measuring : need lots exploration : multi-D visualisation, clustering analysis : FTs, model fitting, correlation analysis much exists : needs VO integration.

14. 14 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh personal hot list single sign on astro soln / industry soln / academic soln data integration what does it mean ? semantic web / ontology AI pipe dream or real next step ? data services whats ready to rock and roll ?

15. 15 15-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh AstroGrid2 and VOTECH VOTECH = design studies AstroGrid2 = engineering is AstroGrid2 just for UK ? or is everything for Europe ?