catching up with IVOA

[Roy Williams]

Interesting story on the wire this morning. Looks like the rest of the 
world is catching up with the astronomy community.

I am glad that VO registries are harvesting each other with the OAI 
(digital library standard) protocol. Maybe IVOA can join science.world?

Roy

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Full story at
http://www.energy.gov/news/4619.htm

Global Science Gateway Agreement Signed in London

/DOE Partners With British Library on “Science.world” Initiative/

*LONDON, ENGLAND* -- Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Under Secretary for Science 
of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), yesterday signed an agreement 
with Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive, the British Library, to partner on 
the development of a global science gateway. The gateway would 
eventually make science information resources of many nations accessible 
via a single Internet portal.

Objectives of the “Science.world” initiative are to:

    * Search dispersed, electronic collections in various science
      disciplines;
    * Provide direct, seamless and free searching of open-source
      collections and portals;
    * Build upon existing and already successful national models for
      searching;
    * Complement existing information collections and systems; and
    * Raise the visibility and usage of individual sources of quality
      science information.