Integrating existing software toolkits into VO system

Chenzhou Cui; Yong-Heng Zhao; Xiaoqian Wang; Jian Sang; Ze Luo

doi:10.1117/12.550970

16 September 2004 Integrating existing software toolkits into VO system

Chenzhou Cui, Yong-Heng Zhao, Xiaoqian Wang, Jian Sang, Ze Luo

Proceedings Volume 5493, Optimizing Scientific Return for Astronomy through Information Technologies; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550970
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

Virtual Observatory (VO) is a collection of interoperating data archives and software tools. Taking advantages of the latest information technologies, it aims to provide a data-intensively online research environment for astronomers all around the world. A large number of high-qualified astronomical software packages and libraries are powerful and easy of use, and have been widely used by astronomers for many years. Integrating those toolkits into the VO system is a necessary and important task for the VO developers. VO architecture greatly depends on Grid and Web services, consequently the general VO integration route is "Java Ready – Grid Ready – VO Ready". In the paper, we discuss the importance of VO integration for existing toolkits and discuss the possible solutions. We introduce two efforts in the field from China-VO project, "gImageMagick" and "Galactic abundance gradients statistical research under grid environment". We also discuss what additional work should be done to convert Grid service to VO service.

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Chenzhou Cui, Yong-Heng Zhao, Xiaoqian Wang, Jian Sang, and Ze Luo "Integrating existing software toolkits into VO system", Proc. SPIE 5493, Optimizing Scientific Return for Astronomy through Information Technologies, (16 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550970

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