VObs.it - the Italian Virtual Observatory

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Aug 2007

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Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 14 IAU XXVI General Assembly, 14-25 August 2006 Karel A. van der Hucht, ed., p.631

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The participation of Italy in VO activities has been initially delegated to a Grid project (i.e., DRACO). After the MoU between INAF and Euro-VO was signed, the VObs.it project was established. The aim of the VObs.it project is to coordinate within a unified approach the archives and databases developed by the Italian community. The first steps in this direction are to foster the adoption of IVOA standards, to provide Grid-aware VO applications and to build a national registry containing the list of VO-compliant services available to the international community. The Italian participation in EU-funded international projects is targeted to the development of tools to be subsequently used within the international VO. This allows our developers to be at the forefront of technology in the field. Equally important are participation in the IVOA Executive Committee and in the IVOA working groups defining standard protocols and formats. The activities forming the initial core of the VObs.it are the following: the Long-Term Archive of the TNG available at the INAF centre for Astronomical Archives (IA2), the archive of the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey, DSS-II and GSC-II (both the databases and the all-sky uncompressed images), BaSTI a widely-used database of theoretical stellar evolution predictions specifically suited for population synthesis analysis, and the Italian Theoretical Virtual Observatory (ITVO) a distributed database of simulated data. Extension to other data and future projects (e.g., the raw LBT and science LBC data, VST) is foreseen. From an initial core of activities carried out by INAF, other groups and organizations are joining the collaboration and expanding VObs.it scientific and technological capabilities. CINECA is active in ITVO and in the definition of IVOA standards, while at the ASI Science Data Center VO-related work has started within the VObs.it and Euro-VO frameworks.

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