Virtual Observatory and Grid-related projects: national and international status
FABIO PASIAN · Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana Supplementi · 2004
The Virtual Observatory as a uniform facility for accessing archived data, and the Grid paradigm for exploiting network-distributed facilities have rapidly gained importance, and are the two environments the Italian astrophysical community will have to deal with in the future. This paper summarizes the status of the related national and international projects, and points out to the logical connections between these two fields.