[NVO News] Newsletter | Issue 1: March 2008

[Sarah Emery Bunn]

NVO NEWSLETTER | Issue 1: March 2008
http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter

Contributors: Andrew Connolly (U. of Washington), Sarah Emery Bunn 
(Caltech), Mike Fitzpatrick (NOAO), and Roy Williams (Caltech)
Editor: Dave De Young (NOAO)

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News & Announcements
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*NVO Book Published
"The National Virtual Observatory: Tools and Techniques for Astronomical 
Research", has been published as an ASP Conference Series (Volume No. 
382) and is available to order at the ASP website.
more: http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter/1/index.html#book

*2008 NVO Summer School
The 4th NVO Summer School will be held 3-11 September 2008 in Santa Fe, 
NM. In this nine-day, hands-on summer school, participants will work 
with experienced NVO users and software specialists to become familiar 
with how to discover, access, visualize, and analyze data with the 
Virtual Observatory.
more: http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter/1/index.html#nvoss

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NVO Inside
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*What is NVO Inside?
An emerging theme in the Virtual Observatory is NVO Inside —- the idea 
that VO protocols are more prevalent than might be apparent on the 
surface. Think of the person who says "I don't need NASA satellites to 
tell me the weather, I just tune into the Weather Channel," with no idea 
that the data driving that channel comes from those satellites!
more: http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter/1/index.html#nvoinside

*Google Sky
Astronomy has always been one of the most visual of the sciences, but 
with the growing size of astronomical surveys, how we browse and 
interact with imagery covering the full sky and at many different 
wavelengths has become a significant challenge. On August 22nd of last 
year Google introduced a new feature to Google Earth; Sky in Google 
Earth (aka Google Sky) that addresses the challenge of exploring 
Terabytes of imaging data through the use of efficient streaming 
technologies.
more: http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter/1/index.html#google

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Featured NVO Application
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*VO-CLI - Command Line Tools for the VO
VO-CLI is a package of command-line tools that provides familiar 
Unix-like access to VO services while hiding much of the complexity of 
the underlying VO framework from novice users.
more: http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter/1/index.html#vocli

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NVO Calendar
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Full calendar with descriptions at 
http://www.us-vo.org/newsletter/1/index.html#calendar

*18-21 February, 2008 | Practical Semantic Astronomy Workshop | 
Pasadena, California
more: http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/semast/

*7-11 April | Euro-VO Workshops: Theory in the VO & Grid and the VO | 
Garching, Germany
more: http://www.si.inaf.it/eurovow2008/

*19-23 May, 2008 | IVOA Interoperability | Trieste, Italy
more: http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2008

*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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