This is http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/vo/

Basic Readings and Information:

U.S. NVO

NVO Science Definition Team website and the report -- probably the most comprehensive overview of the NVO concept so far

National Virtual Observatory (NVO) White Paper astro-ph/0108115 -- local PDF -- a precursor to the NVO SDT report

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

"Virtual Observatory: From Concept to Implementation", by S. G. Djorgovski & R. Williams, ASPCS vol. 345, p. 517 (2005), available at astro-ph/0504006 -- local PDF

"Virtual Astronomy, Information Technology, and the New Scientific Methodology", by S. G. Djorgovski, in IEEE Proc. of CAMP05: Computer Architectures for Machine Perception, eds. V. Di Gesu & D. Tegolo, p. 125 (2005), available at astro-ph/0504651 -- local PDF

"2020: Computational Science in an Exponential World", by A. Szalay & J. Gray, Nature, 440, 413 (2006) -- (PDF)
"The World-Wide Telescope", by A. Szalay & J. Gray, Science, 293, 2037 (2001) -- local gzip PS -- local PDF
"The Heavens at Your Fingertips", a news feature, Nature, 420, 262 (2002) -- local gzip PS -- local PDF
An article from Physics Today, Feb. 2002 -- local gzip PS -- local PDF

Selected Powerpoint Presentations (lots of redundancy), in PDF format:

Related Websites:

U.S. NVO
European VO project
The International VO Alliance
U.K. Astrogrid
Virtual Sky project
Alliance for Community Technology (products)
Alex Szalay's webpage
Jim Gray's webpage
Bohdan Paczynski's webpage

Conferences:

Towards an International Virtual Observatory Conference Website
Virtual Observatories of the Future Conference Website -- (contributions on astro-ph) -- (online presentations)

Selected Review Papers From Our Group:

Exploration of Large Digital Sky Surveys : (astro-ph/0012489) * (Gzip PS) * (PDF)
Searches for Rare Types of Objects : (astro-ph/0012453) * (Gzip PS) * (PDF)
Exploration of Parameter Spaces in a Virtual Observatory : (astro-ph/0108346) * (Gzip PS) * (PDF)
Challenges for Cluster Analysis in a Virtual Observatory : (astro-ph/020824) * (Gzip PS) * (PDF)
The Roles of Small Telescopes in a Virtual Observatory Environment : (astro-ph/0208170) * (Gzip PS) * (PDF)
Massive Data Sets in Astronomy : (astro-ph/0106481)

For more info, please contact George Djorgovski:
george@astro.caltech.edu

Other links:

Selected KDD and DM links (obsolete!)
George's Digital Archives and Journals links
Back to George's home page