TALK ABSTRACT:
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The collection of spacecraft and ground-based observatories that measure
photons, fields, and particles from the Sun and solar system can function as
a Great Observatory if the resulting data products are united through
services that make them seamlessly available to researchers.  Virtual
observatories, begun as ways of viewing the sky in all wavelengths from a
desktop computer, should allow us to reach this goal.  Major strides have
been made in designing architectures and operational systems that allow
scientists to rapidly gather, visualize, and process widely-distributed data
from highly varied instruments.   This talk will present the current
state-of-the art and a vision for the future of "VS3O."