Working Group on Virtual ObservatoriesTerms of ReferenceBackground:The purpose of a Virtual Observatory is to increase efficiency, and enable new science by greatly enhancing access to data, services, and computing resources. A Virtual Observatory is a suite of software applications on a set of computers that allows users to uniformly find, access, and use resources (data, documents, software, processing capability, image products, and services) from distributed product repositories and service providers. A Virtual Observatory may have a single subject (for example, the Virtual Solar Observatory) or several grouped under a theme (the Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory, http://www.vsto.org/). A Virtual Observatory will typically take the form of an internet portal or web services offering users features among the following.
This Working Group focuses on Virtual Observatories (Data Grids, Distributed Data Systems, Virtual Laboratories, etc.) for the management of geophysical and geospace data for all users. Objectives:The eGY Virtual Observatory Working Group will
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