Prototyping the NVO with ClassX
If the NVO existed today what would I want to do with it?
Science goal: Build an automated X-ray classifier.
- Test ëstandard modelí of AGN
- Evolution of early stars
- Look for new kinds of objects
Technology goal: Where does existing infrastructure limit us?
- Finding and organizing data to train classifier or classify sources
- Metadata descriptions of resources and data
- Data transformations
- Bulk data transfers
- Study hierarchical and parallel classifiers