HR: 13:30h
AN: SH43B-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: EGSO - A maturing VO for Solar Physics
AU: * Bentley, R D
EM: rdb@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: UCL-MSSL, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NT United Kingdom
AU: Scholl, I
AF: International Space University, Parc d'Innovation Bd., Strasbourg, France
AU: Csillaghy, A
AF: University of Applied Science, Aargau, Windish, Switzerland
AU: Aboudarham, J
AF: Obs. Paris-Meudon, 5 place Jules Janssen, Meudon, France
AU: Antonucci, E
AF: Obs. Turin, via Osservatori, Turin, Italy
AU: Gurman, J
AF: Solar Data Analysis Center, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD United States
AU: Hill, F
AF: National Solar Observatory, P.O. Box 26732, Tuscon, AZ United States
AU: Pike, D
AF: Rutherford Appleton Lab., Dept. Space, Chilton, United Kingdom
AU: Vial, J
AF: Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
AU: Zharkova, V
AF: University of Bradford, Dept. Cybernetics, Bradford, United Kingdom
AB: The European Grid of Solar Observations, EGSO, is a Grid test-bed funded under the Information Societies Thematic Priority of the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5). In the case of EGSO, the application chosen was the use of Grid technology to establish a virtual observatory for solar physics, and the project addresses the generic problem of how to provide access to a distributed, heterogeneous data set for a scattered user community. In order to identify observations that match a user's search criteria, EGSO has been building an environment that will support complex searches. Because of the absence of the metadata needed to tie the heterogeneous data together, EGSO has placed emphasis on the provision of databases that can be accessed from the Internet through special providers. The provision of appropriate metadata is of extreme importance in establishing a virtual observatory, and the approach used can be adapted to facilitate the inclusion of any data, including non-solar data. We report on the capabilities of EGSO and discuss experience gained in creating the facility. We also discuss how EGSO has been working with other virtual observatories that support the solar, heliospheric and space plasma communities in order to try to achieve interoperability between the numerous data sets. We highlight what we consider are the most profitable ways of doing this.
UR: http://www.egso.org
DE: 7594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 7599 General or miscellaneous
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly