A number of Australian astronomical survey datasets have been identified as preliminary contributors to Aus-VO.

In the spirit of other virtual observatory endeavours, each dataset will be prepared for Aus-VO by scientists who are expert in handling the data. These are the people best-placed to fully describe the data and provide rich interfaces for its access. In practice, this means the astronomers who acquired or archived the data will arrange its import into virtual observatory compliant form.

Aus-VO itself will be a loose coupling of the contributors, and in the early phase of the project will be charged with coordinating the initial archive-based projects, and with developing sophisticated and wide-ranging science test cases for consideration in future phases of the project.

These pages are maintained by David Barnes, and hosted by the Astrophysics Group, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne.