Speaker
Chenzhou CUI
(The PI for Chinese Virtual Observatory (China-VO) and the chair for International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA), the deputy director of National Astronomy Data Center in China (NADC))
Description
The Virtual Observatory (VO) aims to provide a research environment that will open up new possibilities for scientific research based on data discovery, efficient data access, and interoperability. In the talk, basic concept of the VO and current status of the IVOA will be introduced. As whole life-cycle data management science platform, several examples will be given including NADC (China), NOAO Data Lab (US), CANFAR
(Canada) and SciServer (US).