From Mica
Virtual Observatory, and Information-Rich Astronomy in the 21st Century
Talk by George Djorgovski (Caltech)
Like most other sciences, astronomy is being transformed by an exponential growth of data, driven by the progress in information technology. Large digital sky surveys are generating many Terabytes (and soon Petabytes) of information, of an ever increasing complexity. This data richness is enabling us to ask new kinds of questions about the universe, but it also poses significant challenges. The Virtual Observatory (VO) concept is a response to these challenges and opportunities: it is a general, distributed, web-based research environment for astronomy with massive and complex data sets and numerical simulations. VO is a new type of a scientific organization for the era of exponential growth of information and computation. It enables a broad access to data and research tools, as well as education and public outreach.
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