Chapter about VOs in BigSkyEarth book

[Djorgovski, Stanislav G.]

Dear Peter et al., I’d be happy to contribute some text about the early (pre)history of the VO, and the origins of the astroinformatics “movement”.  Thanks, George


> On Mar 7, 2018, at 5:33 AM, Petr Skoda <skoda at sunstel.asu.cas.cz> wrote:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> as you may still remember I started to announce at Shanghai interop
> the idea of putting together the book about knowledge discovery in astro and geo informatics. I also bothered many of you during EWASS in Prague. At that time was not clear a lot of issues. This book is intended as a result of our COST action BIG SKY EARTH  TD1403 where are participating also many people from astroinformatics circles,  IVOA and Gaia, LSST etc ...
> 
> In recent weeks the shaping of the book content and the leading authors of chapters started to be fixed (still some flexibility expected)
> details will be given later to interested co-authors.
> 
> 
> We with   Adam Fathalrahman from DLR are the main book editors.
> As the topic also covers the accessing data , querying and processing at their storage place (because the BigData) one full chapter (probably led by myself) will be devoted  to Virtual observatories, data federalisation and such topics - in both astronomy and Geo sciences. We already have some idea how to tackle this.
> 
> So I am looking for possible contributors from IVOA who  would be able to fulfill following requirements. I will cooperate with all of them to join their content with other parts of the book.
> 
> 1) To summarise in say 10 pages the main points of the astronomical VO standardization - short history which led to IVOA (I would appreciate namely Bob Hanisch, Francoise and other 'fathers and mothers' of IVOA to contribute here)
> 
> 2) To have a wider view in writing the text having in mind that the book will be read also by non astronomers from Geo community.
> So no details about astronomical jargoons , or detailed explanation of protocols, please ;-)
> 
> 3) Be able of sufficient abstraction of the basic explanation of key principles of registry, votable, TAP, UWS
> ucd, importance of metadata (also doi ivorn stuff) should be explained best with giving analogies in other disciplines ....
> 
> 
> 
> 4)Also developers from Theory group are welcome to describe shortly the SimDB and related stuff also mentioning cosmological simulations and need for querying and subcutting in them.
> 
> 
> The deadline for delivering final chapter is end of June.
> The involvement must be expressed immediately to me and Adam.
> 
> The book will be closed source published probably by Springer, although Elsevier is in play as well - the decision will be made soon.
> All the contributors will be indexed in main databases and will be given discounts for the all books from the selected publisher plus other benefits (sorry no direct money).
> 
> I am awaiting your emails expressing deep interest  ASAP.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Petr Skoda
> 
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