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Euro-VO

Astronomy organization

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ5411498 ↗
Source-derived summary

The European Virtual Observatory or EURO-VO project aims at deploying an operational virtual observatory in Europe. Its objectives are technology take-up and VO-compliant resource provision, building of technical infrastructure, and support for its utilization by the scientific community.

The EURO-VO work programme is the logical continuation of the Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO), which created the foundations of a regional-scale infrastructure in a Phase-A effort. EURO-VO is currently a Phase-B deployment of an operational VO in Europe.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Euro-VO” as astronomy organization. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Euro-VO, Astronomy and organization.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 76-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Euro-VO, Astronomy and organization providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Euro-VO”, the useful work is to connect “astronomy organization” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5411498. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Euro-VO”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Euro-VO primary sources, Euro-VO archive and Euro-VO research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  2. Which observation, specimen, dataset or publication supports the account?
  3. Has classification or technical consensus changed since the cited source?
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This entry incorporates text from “Euro-VO” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.