ESCAPE - The European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 824064.
Access interoperable astronomy data, tools and services for your research
FAIR data
Discover virtual observatory standards and training to make your data FAIR.
Access large data catalogues
Access data populated by major data providers such as ESO, ASTRON, JIVE, NASA, ESA, and more.
Integrated services
Access VO services from many VO-enabled tools including ESCAPE ESAP, VO software from the ESCAPE OSSR.
What is the ESCAPE Virtual Observatory?
The Virtual Observatory is a framework built on International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) standards for the interoperable access to world-wide large astronomy data catalogues and services, that researchers can use to can access, reuse and publish data. Within the ESCAPE project WP4 CEVO is adapting, extending, and developing new IVOA standards according to the demands of the ESFRI partners. CEVO is an effective way to represent the European interests at the IVOA. CEVO enables an ongoing exchange between standard developers, data providers, and scientific users. This is pursued through different channels and events.
What can you do?
- Make your data FAIR
Find IVOA standards that will help you to define the metadata that will make your data FAIR. - Foster reuse of your data
Publish your data and metadata to the VO, making them findable by other researchers. - Save time with existing data
Execute queries to find, access and reuse the specific data that you are looking for.
How does it work?
- An example of accessing a VO interface. - https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/v3-beta/
- Search for the specific data or services that you need for your research – e.g. with TOPCAT: http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/
- Access and reuse the data – e.g.with the ESO Science Portal: http://archive.eso.org/scienceportal/home
- Publish you results following the standards - https://ivoa.net/documents/
Learn more
Browse the tutorials for scientific use of the Virtual Observatory (VO) - https://www.euro-vo.org/scientific-tutorials/