The National Science Foundation has recently awarded a grant to a group of six faculty at Pitt to support the AstroShelf project. They are Professors Jeffrey Newman and Michael Wood-Vasey from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Professor G. Elisabeta Marai from the Interdisciplinary Visualization Research Lab and Professors Labrinidis and Chrysanthis from the ADMT Lab.
The goals of the project include creating a scalable annotation framework for astronomical data and objects, creating a continuous workflow system that facilitates automated reasoning and creating a framework for interacting with astronomical datasets. Details can be found on our website, and in the NSF award page.