OPTICON Network: Future Data Analysis Environment - Useful references

This reference material will help to focus technical discussion as we progress in the project. It complements the information in GeneralDocuments; while in that entry you will find documents, papers, presentations and talks, this one contains additional useful references, including workshops calendar, projects and products, and standards.

Workshops and Symposia

Calendar: Workshops, Symposia and other national and international events.

• ADASS XIV - 24-27 October 2004, Pasadena, California, USA.
• ADASS XV - 2-5 October 2005, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain.

Projects and products

Commercial and open source software products and projects.

• Finnish in-kind project
• Globus Project The Globus Project is developing fundamental technologies needed to build computational grids. The Globus Project provides the globus toolkit, an open architecture, open source software toolkit.
• Radionet is also considering ways to make access to software and pipelines easier within the radio community.

Standards

Agreed and/or proposed standards to be used within the scope of this project.

• OGSA Open Grid Software Architecture.
• FITS The data exchange format.
• VOTable A proposed XML format for exchange of astronomical tables.

-- DanielPonz - 12 Dec 2004 -- PrebenGrosbol - 17 Mar 2005
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