WA 2 aims at deployment and demonstration of an interoperability
prototype, including a set of representative, gound and space European
archives from all the AVO project partners. The tools will be the CDS
interoperability services, VizieR for
catalogue federation and Aladin
for data integration.
The objectives of WA 2 are:
to realize a prototype of an iteroperable system; this
prototype will be open for community usage;
to evaluate it by running a few science cases in a controlled way
(ergonomics, new functionalities);
to improve the federation and integration tools;
to assess critical technical points;
to establish common (internationally agreed) data exchange standards
for interoperability;
to evaluate the available interoperability tools, in particular those
that might be developed in the frame of other VO initiatives.