Astronomical data and the Virtual Observatory

Dear IVOA member

This email is to invite you to submit a paper for the CODATA 2008 conference on

"Scientific Information for Society - from Today to the Future" in Kiev, Ukraine, 5-8 October 2008

I am planning to organise a significant session during this conference on "Astronomical Data and the Virtual Observatory", and plan to pull together many of the topics for this conference into this area, including (but not limited to):

• Role and operation of data centres and data services in the future
• The Virtual Observatory and its application commercial applications (Google Sky, WHT)
• Interoperability
• Managing Astronomical Data in the Petabyte era
• Development of open access, data commons, information commons and open culture
• Preserving and digitizing legacy data
• Crossing the digital divide: Accessing scientific & technical data in developing countries;
• External threats to freedom of access;

The web page is on
http://www.codata08.org.ua/participation/call-for-papers.html, and you should follow the instructions there for submitting abstracts.

The deadline for submitting a short abstract is 1 February, but there is some flexibility - please contact me if you want to submit an abstract but can't do so by the deadline, or if you have any other questions. Note that registration details (cost etc) are not yet available but you can submit an abstract now without making a commitment. The cost is likely to be moderate.

My apologies if you receive this email more than once.

With best wishes

Ray Norris

President, IAU Commission 5, and
Chair, IAU Working Group on Astronomical Data

CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
Phone +61 2 9372 4416
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/RNorris/  

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