1. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator EuroVO Data Centre Alliance Project overview

2. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator EuroVO DCA (1) Third attempt succeeded (VO-NET I3 March 2004, EuroVO-DCA I3 March 2005) EC framework: eInfrastructure Communication Network Development Coordination Action http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/rn/home.html Same Unit as GEANT and GRIDs

3. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator EuroVO DCA (1) Project officer: Carlos Morais Pires ISTweb - Research Infrastructure - Who's who

4. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator

5. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator

6. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator

7. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Organisation and schedule 28 months Starting 1 Sept. 2006 –Kick-off: 2 months –Cycle 1: 1 year –Cycle 2: 1 year –Final phase: 2 months PCT (M. Depretz) IST (M. Allen) TEG (G. Lemson)

8. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Objectives The concept of a Virtual Observatory (VObs) is that all the world's astronomical data should feel like it sits on the astronomer's desk top, analysable with a user selected workbench of tools and made available through a standard interface. The VObs concept has the potential to transform and re- structure the way astronomy research is done, and the Virtual Observatory is a world-wide community-based initiative. Euro-VO is a specifically European implementation of this idea that will produce a unified virtual data and service resource (a data and service grid) with the ability to perform complex data discovery and manipulation tasks across the whole range of astronomical research topics. The Euro-VO Data Centre Alliance, an essential component of the Euro-VO, populates the VObs with data produced by the European astronomy infrastructures. The EuroVO- DCA project will co-ordinate the national and European Agencies VO initiatives, to implement networking of European data centres, disseminate knowledge and good practice about the VObs technical framework, organise feedback from implementation of interoperability standards, prepare the inclusion of theoretical astronomy in the VObs framework, seek coordination with national and international projects for computational Grids, and help data centres from beyond the partners’ countries to participate in the VObs endeavour. The project will enable the identification and promotion of requirements from programs of strategic European and national interest that require VObs technologies and services. The control and sharing of standards and methods will make it possible to achieve a production-level European-wide eInfrastructure. The Euro-VO proposal will produce a rare example of an operational data and service grid, relying on generic infrastructure elements (the high bandwidth communication network and the general framework of the Grid infrastructure) and, wherever required, on discipline-specific interoperability standards.

9. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator VOTC: Technology Centre VOFC: Facility Centre

10. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Work Packages WP 1: Management (INSU) WP 2: Definition of EuroVO DCA strategy (INSU) WP 3: Support to take-up and implementation (ESA/ESO) WP3-2: Feedback from implementation (AG) WP 4: Theory in VO (MPE) WP 5: Coordination with computational Grid projects (INAF) WP 6: Support to data centres from other European countries (INTA)

11. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Strategy Census (preliminary version now) Workshops, visits for technical discussions and sharing of experience –2 EuroVO-DCA Workshops –Companions Theory and Computational Grid Workshops Manpower: 1.5 FTE/partner Working Groups on focussed topics of interest for several partners?

12. Project overview First Board Meeting – 2&3 October 2006 Françoise GENOVA, EuroVO-DCA Coordinator Strategy with respect to EU We are asked to network with other projects (e.g. Belief) and to participate in IST events eContentplus (DG Information Society & Media)? eContentplus - HOME - DG Information Society & Media Strategy for FP7?