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1. Artificial Intelligence Tools for Data Mining in Large Astronomical Databases

   The federation of heterogeneous large astronomical databases foreseen in the framework of the AVO and NVO projects will pose unprecedented data...

   Giuseppe Longo, Ciro Donalek, ... Alfredo Volpicelli in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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2. Enabling Outreach with Virtual Observatories

   Virtual observatories are potentially excellent vehicles for public outreach and education because they can put anyone in direct contact with the...

   G. Mark Voit in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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3. Building the MEGA Image-Subtraction Pipeline in the Era of Virtual Observatories

   We are inventing techniques to increase variable source yields from image subtraction analyses. An example innovation that will improve detection...

   David R. Alves, A. P. S. Crotts, ... A. Gersch in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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4. ASTRO-WISE - An Astronomical Wide-Field Imaging System for Europe

   With the new one square degree high resolution wide field imagers coming on-line in the near future, such as the 268 Mpix OmegaCAM at ESO’s VST and...

   Edwin A. Valentijn, Konrad Kuijken in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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5. A Common Data Analysis Environment: Do We Need One?

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   Preben Grosbøl, Pascal Ballester, Klaus Banse in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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6. The Digitized Hamburg Objective Prism Surveys

   The digitized objective prism plates of the Hamburg Sky Surveys will be made available via the World-Wide Web, providing the raw data in FITS format...

   D. Engels, H.-J. Hagen, ... F.-J. Zickgraf in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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7. Applying Data Compression Methods in Astronomical Archives

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   Hans Weghorn in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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8. System to Study Evolution of Radio Galaxies as a Part of a Virtual Radio Observatory

   The system for study of radio galaxies evolution using photometry data has been created at the site http: //sed.sao.ru. It consists of several...

   Natalia V. Verkhodanova, Oleg V. Verkhodanov, ... Vladimir N. Chernenkov in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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9. IDHA Image Archive Model

   The Image archive model described here has been developed within the scope of the IDHA (Images Distribuées Hétérogènes pour l’Astronomie) project....

   Mireille Louys, François Bonnarel, ... Pierre Didelon in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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10. Scalable Metadata Definition Frameworks

    The VO will be an evolving environment that will enable increasingly complex interactions between resources. Naturally, expanding capabilities will...

    Raymond Plante in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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11. Authentication and Authorization Architecture for AstroGrid and the Virtual Observatory

    Although the bulk of the data useful to the Virtual Observatory are in the public domain and have uniform, read-only access from archives, there are...

    Guy Rixon, Tony Linde, ... Nicholas Walton in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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12. Theoretical Astrophysics and the US-NVO Initiative

    Early discussions of the Virtual Observatory concept revolved almost exclusively around the use of large scale datasets derived from major observing...

    David De Young in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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13. The AstroGrid Pilot Programme

    We describe the AstroGrid Pilot Programme, a set of testbeds conducted during AstroGrid’s one-year Phase A study, and intended to complement the...

    R. G. Mann, A. C. Davenhall, ... R. Stamper in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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14. Catalogue Intersection: Beyond Basic Cross Correlations

    Matching objects listed in different catalogues by position is a primary need for VO users: we want to find counterparts (or absence of counterparts)...

    Patricio F. Ortiz in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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15. Space-Time Metadata for the Virtual Observatory

    We discuss the hierarchy of objects that are to contain the metadata pertaining to space and time for the Virtual Observatory. The design needs to be...

    Arnold Rots in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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16. The Virtual Observatory as a Tool to Study Star Cluster Populations in Starburst Galaxies

    Richard de Grijs, Uta Fritze-v Alvensleben in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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17. Multi-Object Spectroscopy: Automatic Extraction and Previewing of Spectra

    With multi-object spectroscopy becoming an integral part of modern astronomical instrumentation, the amount of such data in archives is bound to...

    Norbert Pirzkal, Florian Kerber in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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18. Multiwavelength Studies of AGN

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    Dirk Grupe in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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19. To Creation of Virtual Radio Observatory

    The approach to the creation of the virtual radio observatory in Russia is described. The proposed system is based on the system operating in the...

    Oleg V. Verkhodanov, Vladimir K. Kononov, ... Vladimir N. Chernenkov in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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20. The Canadian Virtual Observatory Project

    The Canadian Virtual Observatory (CVO) project is now funded at a level that places it among the major Virtual Observatory (VO) projects in the...

    David Schade, Pat Dowler, ... Severin Gaudet in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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