Integrating Existing Software Toolkits into VO System
摘要
Virtual Observatory (VO) is a collection of interoperating data archives and software tools. Taking advantages of the latest information technologies, it aims to provide a data-intensively online research environment for astronomers all around the world. A large number of high-qualified astronomical software packages and libraries are powerful and easy of use, and have been widely used by astronomers for many years. Integrating those toolkits into the VO system is a necessary and important task for the VO developers. VO architecture greatly depends on Grid and Web services, consequently the general VO integration route is "Java Ready - Grid Ready - VO Ready". In the paper, we discuss the importance of VO integration for existing toolkits and discuss the possible solutions. We introduce two efforts in the field from China-VO project, "gImageMagick" and " Galactic abundance gradients statistical research under grid environment". We also discuss what additional work should be done to convert Grid service to VO service.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411387,
title = {Integrating Existing Software Toolkits into VO System},
author = {Chenzhou Cui and Yongheng Zhao and Xiaoqian Wang and Jian Sang and Ze Luo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411387},
year = {2009}
}
备注
9 pages, 3 figures, will be published in SPIE 2004 conference proceedings