Welcome to the National Virtual Observatory (NVO) Science Definition Team (SDT) OLD website!
The custody of this archive is now with U.S. NVO (the NSF ITR sponsored project)


The Team mandate has ended. Please see the final report below. If you are interested in the (N)VO developments, please visit some of the websites listed below.

The Team Charter
The Team Membership

The Complete SDT Final Report, available as a MSW doc file -- Gzip Postscript file -- PDF file

Executive Summary only, available as a MSW doc file -- Gzip Postscript file -- PDF file

An Overview Chapter only, available as a MSW doc file -- Gzip Postscript file -- PDF file


Presentation at the June 2002 AAS Meeting in Albuquerque, available as Powerpoint file -- Gzip Postscript file -- PDF file


Some Useful Links:


National Virtual Observatory (NVO) White Paper (astro-ph link)

"Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure", an NSF report (aka the Atkins Report), very relevant for the NVO: Report website and individual PDF files: Executive Summary -- The Report -- Appendices

"The World-Wide Telescope", by A. Szalay & J. Gray, Science, 293, 2037 (2001) -- (Gzip Postscript) -- (PDF)

A recent article in Physics Today, available as HTML -- Gzip Postscript -- PDF

voforum.org (links and discussion)

The NAS Decadal Report, "Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium" (on-line report)
(list of priorities, including the NVO)

U.S. NVO (the NSF ITR sponsored project)
European AVO project
U.K. Astrogrid

George Djorgovski's VO webpage and links
Tom Prince's NVO webpage

Garching VO Conference Website, June 2002
Virtual Observatories of the Future conference website (June 2000),
(contributions at astro-ph)
(online presentations)