Chapter about VOs in BigSkyEarth book

[Rob Seaman]

Astronomical curiosity predates Homo sapiens. And as an organized study
it predates the historical record (seasons, eclipses, motion of the
planets, transient phenomena like meteors and bolides, comets, Thuban as
the pole star, etc). VO-like facilities are obviously one aspect of the
future of the field...whether or not modern big science trends result in
funding the corresponding bricks-and-mortar institutions. Ignore the
debacles of our various nations' science priorities, IVOA is an activity
of Comm B2 of the IAU.

Rob

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On 3/8/18 1:59 AM, Giuseppe Longo wrote:
> Are yoi tryimng to say that there will be also a future? 
> GL
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> *Giuseppe Longo*
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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Rob Seaman <seaman at lpl.arizona.edu
> <mailto:seaman at lpl.arizona.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Some might assert that we're still in the VO's prehistory ;-)
>
>     Rob
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>     On 3/7/18 9:42 AM, Djorgovski, Stanislav G. wrote:
>>     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> <mailto: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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