VO standard for JPEG with WCS

[Carol Christian]

HI

STScI is involved in this as well and has worked on metatagging of  
materials useful to the public (including
video, etc.) based on astronomical data.

Carol C

On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:36 AM, John Good wrote:

>
> FYI, see
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>    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
>

Dr. Carol Christian
Deputy, Community Missions Office
& Education Director, NVO
Space Telescope Science Institute
contact | Tel: 410-338-4764 | .mac: cac01

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