The Age of Mega-Surveys
The next generation of astronomical archives with Terabyte catalogs will dramatically change astronomy
built on sound statistical plans
uniform, homogeneous, well calibrated
well controlled and documented systematics
The technology to store and index the data is here
Data mining in such vast archives will be a challenge,
but possibilities are quite unimaginable
Integrating these archives into a single entity is a
project for the whole community => Virtual National Observatory