Russian Virtual Observatory: Task Force TECNOLOGIES OF INFORMATION STRUCTURE OF RVO

RUSSIAN VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY

RUSSIAN

Task Force

TECNOLOGIES OF INFORMATION STRUCTURE OF RVO

(IPI RAS, led by Leonid A. Kalinichenko)

Members of the task group:

Function:

deployment as community centers for the needs of RVO of the most advanced technologies in the world related to the VO infrastructure;
support of the scientific problems solving in the RVO astronomical community (administration of users in the RVO infrastructure, consultancy on application of the infrastructural facilities, direct participation in the scientific problems solving);
coordination of the efforts on technological development of RVO;
development of standards for original technological development of RVO and their deployment in IVOA;
implementation of original technological developments of the RVO infrastructure;
participation in preparation of the RVO related workshops and meetings;
keeping of the international relationships in the domain of the technological task group.

First results achieved:

working contacts with the developers of the AstroGrid systems in the UK has been established;
the AstroGrid RVO Community Center for scientific problem solving over the distributed information repositories accumulated in the world has been established. The Center has been created at the IPI RAS on the basis of the AstroGrid system developed in the UK and kindly delivered by the authors for the needs of RVO. Opening of the AstroGrid RVO is one of the first steps on implementation of the Information Infrastructure of the Russian Virtual Observatory (IIRVO). Research groups and individual researchers are invited for registering as AstroGrid RVO users. More details on the AstroGrid RVO capabilities can be found at the Announcement of the AstroGrid RVO (http://synthesis.ipi.ac.ru//synthesis/projects/astromedia/astroannounce) that contains also instructions for the registration of users;
the AstroGrid capabilities have been tried during implementation of facilities for solving of the distant galaxies discovery problem (http://synthesis.ipi.ac.ru//synthesis/projects/astromedia/distgal).

The nearest plans:

following the development of the AstroGrid system and deployment of new releases at the AstroGrid RVO Community Center;
preparing demonstrational examples for the RVO project meetings (in particular, for the RVO Meeting planned for April 10 – 11 of 2006);
participation in planning of the AstroGrid Workshop co-located with the IVOA Interoperability Meeting in September 2006;
making detailed analysis of a possibility of implementation of the subject mediator facilities for the scientific problem solving in the AstroGrid infrastructure.