catching up with IVOA

From: Roy Williams <roy-at-cacr.caltech.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:03:26 -0800

Interesting story on the wire this morning. Looks like the rest of the world is catching up with the astronomy community.

I am glad that VO registries are harvesting each other with the OAI (digital library standard) protocol. Maybe IVOA can join science.world?

Roy

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Full story at
http://www.energy.gov/news/4619.htm

Global Science Gateway Agreement Signed in London

/DOE Partners With British Library on “Science.world” Initiative/

*LONDON, ENGLAND* -- Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Under Secretary for Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), yesterday signed an agreement with Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive, the British Library, to partner on the development of a global science gateway. The gateway would eventually make science information resources of many nations accessible via a single Internet portal.

Objectives of the “Science.world” initiative are to:

• Search dispersed, electronic collections in various science disciplines;
• Provide direct, seamless and free searching of open-source collections and portals;
• Build upon existing and already successful national models for searching;
• Complement existing information collections and systems; and
• Raise the visibility and usage of individual sources of quality science information.

Received on 2007-01-24Z17:05:02