VO standard for JPEG with WCS

[John Good]

FYI, see

    http://virtualastronomy.org/

IRSA is involved in this as well, designing
an information system infrastructure for storing,
sharing and searching the metadata.

- John



Ray Plante wrote:

> Hey Pierre,
> 
> A standard for tagging JPEGs with metadata for outreach purposes is in 
> the works, driven by a US-European collaboration.  It's current form is 
> in the IVOA is a Note, "Astronomical Outreach Imagery Metadata Tags for 
> the Virtual Observatory" 
> (http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/AOIMetadata.html).
> The contact people in Europe are Lars Lindberg Christensen and Markus 
> Dolensky, and in the US, Robert Hurt.  They are in the process of 
> revising the document and getting ready for a comment process for both 
> the outreach community and the IVOA.
> 
> cheers,
> Ray