Knowledge Discovery Framework for the Virtual Observatory
This addresses data accessibility challenges for astronomers using the Virtual Observatory, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing infrastructure.
The authors developed a framework that enables scientists to query and analyze data across all Virtual Observatory repositories as if from a single source, using science-based terminology while hiding metadata and formatting complexities.
We describe a framework that allows a scientist-user to easily query for information across all Virtual Observatory (VO) repositories and pull it back for analysis. This framework hides the gory details of meta-data remediation and data formatting from the user, allowing them to get on with search, retrieval and analysis of VO data as if they were drawn from a single source using a science based terminology rather than a data-centric one.