| The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) was founded 20 years ago with the purpose of fostering multi-wavelength / multi-archive data access and interoperability. The IVOA is a standards organization that has embraced what is now known as the FAIR data principle and has focused on data management and access, data-literature-tool interoperability and ‘big data’ access and analysis. Interfaces based on IVOA standards are found in the major astronomy data centers. Data reproducibility and ‘open science’ are the natural next step in this process that can be supported by reviewing and extending the IVOA standards. |
