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14 Sept 2005NVO Summer School II 1
What’s on Tap in the VO?
THE US NATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY
Robert HanischUS NVO Project Manager
Space Telescope Science Institute
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THE US NATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY
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THE US NATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY
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Technical roadmap
• IVOA agrees upon priorities and plans for technology development
http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/RoadMap.html
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Science roadmap
• Science Steering Committee advice– Fast data inventory service– Sky coverage footprint services– WCS fixer– Integration of DataScope with VOEvent
notifications– Forms-based interfaces for database queries
and cross-correlations
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Near-term opportunities
• Research initiatives (Oct 1)– http://www.us-vo.org/research/
• Microsoft technology program (Sept 19)– http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/funding
opps/RFPs/SmartClient_eScience_RFP.aspx
• NASA AISRP (next year)– http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/
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The NVO Facility
• NVO development project finishes in September 2006
• NSF and NASA now preparing joint solicitation for ongoing NVO operations– NVO Facility intended to be small-scale
national observatory– Strong endorsement from Astronomy &
Astrophysics Advisory Committee– Members of the NVO development team
preparing NVO Facility proposal– May include grants and fellowship program
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The NVO Facility
• Development– Requirements analysis, priority assessment– Continued software development; technology
tracking– Standards and protocols, in collaboration with
international VO partners– Software templates, reference applications– Computational services and scalability (Grid,
Cyberinfrastructure)– Security: authentication and authorization– Testing and system integration, multi-platform
support
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The NVO Facility
• Operations– Repository for contributed software– Registry curation, service monitoring and validation– Data publication support– Data preservation– Data quality forum?– Computational services and scalability (Grid,
Cyberinfrastructure)– Security: authentication and authorization– Testing and system integration, multi-platform
support– Documentation– User support, web site
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The NVO Facility
• Management– Education and public outreach– Community engagement– Grants, fellowship, internship program management– Logging, metrics– Science program definition– VO-enabled research– Task management, reporting, budget planning and
justification– Agency liaison– Oversight and advisory committees– Board of Directors
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Transition challenges
• Development approach: open-loop, prototypes vs. structured, tested, maintained
• Project structure: extent of distributed effort, lines of authority and responsibility
• Governance and community oversight: management accountability
• Balance between science and IT-based motivations
• Performance goals, science metrics• Balance between NSF and NASA project
management styles
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The future
• NVO will happen– Unstructured, chaotic, inefficient– Structured, deliberate, effective
• You are now part of the story, part of the path toward success