HI
STScI is involved in this as well and has worked on metatagging of materials useful to the public (including video, etc.) based on astronomical data.
Carol C
On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:36 AM, John Good wrote:
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> FYI, see
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> http://virtualastronomy.org/
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> IRSA is involved in this as well, designing
> an information system infrastructure for storing,
> sharing and searching the metadata.
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> - John
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> Ray Plante wrote:
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>> Hey Pierre,
>> A standard for tagging JPEGs with metadata for outreach purposes
>> is in the works, driven by a US-European collaboration. It's
>> current form is in the IVOA is a Note, "Astronomical Outreach
>> Imagery Metadata Tags for the Virtual Observatory" (http://
>> www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/AOIMetadata.html).
>> The contact people in Europe are Lars Lindberg Christensen and
>> Markus Dolensky, and in the US, Robert Hurt. They are in the
>> process of revising the document and getting ready for a comment
>> process for both the outreach community and the IVOA.
>> cheers,
>> Ray
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Dr. Carol Christian
Deputy, Community Missions Office
& Education Director, NVO
Space Telescope Science Institute
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Received on 2008-01-17Z17:18:48