EGSO - A maturing VO for Solar Physics

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May 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agusmsh43b..01b&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2005, abstract #SH43B-01

Computer Science

Databases

7594 Instruments And Techniques, 7599 General Or Miscellaneous

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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.

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