From: <Ray.Norris_at_email.protected>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:00:27 +1100

Dear Virtual Observatory participant

I emailed you a few weeks ago to invite you to submit a paper for a
one-day session on "Astronomical Data and the Virtual Observatory" at
the CODATA 2008 conference in Kiev, Ukraine, 5-8 October 2008. That
session is now firming up, and this is the final call for papers.

The topics for the astronomy session include (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;

Details of the session are on
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rnorris/CODATA2008.htm

The deadline for submitting a title and short abstract (see web page for
details of how to do so) is 31 March.

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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Received on 2008-03-17 16:00:51