Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-12-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted to a special issue of the Elsevier journal "Future Generation Computer Systems"
Scientific paper
Astronomy is entering a new era as multiple, large area, digital sky surveys are in production. The resulting datasets are truly remarkable in their own right; however, a revolutionary step arises in the aggregation of complimentary multi-wavelength surveys (i.e. the cross-identification of a billion sources). Federating these different datasets, however, is an extremely challenging task. With this task in mind, we have identified several areas where community standardization can provide enormous benefits in order to develop the techniques and technologies necessary to solve the problems inherent in federating these large databases, as well as the mining of the resultant aggregate data. Several of these areas are domain specific, however, the majority of them are not. We feel that the inclusion of non-astronomical partnerships can provide tremendous insights.
Brunner Robert J.
Szalay Alex S.
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