[NVO News] Newsletter | Issue 2: June 2008

[Sarah Emery Bunn]

NVO NEWSLETTER | Issue 2: June 2008
http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter

Contributors: August Muench (Harvard), Roy Williams (Caltech)
Editors: Dave De Young (NOAO), Sarah Emery Bunn (Caltech)

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News & Announcements
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*HTN Call for Proposals
The Heterogenous Telescope Networks (HTN) group, a consortium of robotic
telescope operators and users interested in the benefits of networked
observing, are offering a substantial amount of observing time spread
across four robotic telescopes for an outstanding observing project of
scientific merit that leverages the advantages of of automated rapid
follow-up.
more: http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter/2/index.html#HTN

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NVO Inside
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"NVO Inside" is the idea that the VO is in use by many applications and
data providers, not just by those that are branded as part of the
official VO efforts. Do you use VO protocols or services? Produce VO
content or applications? Does your research have "NVO Inside"? Please
let us know!

*The VO Inside WorldWide Telescope
Microsoft Research recently released the WorldWide Telescope (WWT)
software, which provides seamless access to astronomical data via an
advanced interactive interface.  The name "WorldWide Telescope" comes
from the description by Alex Szalay and Jim Gray in 2002 of a new genre
of astronomical research that would recognize and utilize the vast
resources that were becoming available on the World Wide Web.   As that
grid of resources becomes a unified reality with the infrastructure
provided by the VO efforts, Microsoft Research and the Space-Time
Consortium at Harvard are developing WWT to unify these distributed
resources on the astronomer's desktop.
more: http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter/2/index.html#WWT

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Featured NVO Application
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*VIM: Visual Integration & Mining
VIM is a tool for investigating multiple sources (or sky
positions) simultaneously. Each source becomes a row in a table, with
catalog, image cutouts, and spectral information drawn from
VO-accessible data collections.
more: http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter/2/index.html#VIM


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NVO Calendar
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Full calendar with descriptions at
http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter/2/index.html#calendar

* 23-27 June 2008 | Euro-VO DCA Workshop 2008 on how to publish data in
the VO | ESO Garching bei München, Germany
more: http://www.euro-vo.org/dcaworkshop2008/

*3-11 September, 2008 | The 2008 NVO Summer School | Santa Fe, New Mexico
more: http://www.us-vo.org/summer-school/2008/index.cfm

* 5-8 October 2008 | "Astronomical Data and the Virtual Observatory"
session at CODATA21 | Kiev, Ukraine
more: http://www.codata08.org.ua/

* 27-31 October | IVOA Interoperability | Baltimore, Maryland

* 2-5 November 2008 | ADASS XVIII | Quebec City, Canada
more: http://www.adass.org/

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