IVOA

IVOA

The International Virtual Observatory Alliance or IVOA is a worldwide scientific organisation formed in June 2002. Its mission is to facilitate international coordination and collaboration necessary for enabling global and integrated access to data gathered by astronomical observatories. An information system allowing such an access is called a "Virtual Observatory". The main task of the organisation so far has focused on defining standards to ensure interoperability of the different virtual observatory projects already existing or in development.

Members

IVOA currently brings together sixteen member organisations, both national and international, some of these being:

*National Virtual Observatory (USA)
*AstroGrid (UK)
*European Virtual Observatory
*Australian Virtual Observatory

External links

* [http://ivoa.net/ The International Virtual Observatory Alliance]

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