The Australian Virtual Observatory

The Australian Virtual Observatory is an integral component of the International Virtual Observatory, which will link the archives of all the world's major astronomical observatories into one distributed database, with powerful software tools to maximise the scientific return from this data. In this proposal we seek to create archives of some of Australia's most useful astronomical resources. This information will be in a common, internationally agreed, standard so that they can be accessed by the Astronomical community, through a single interface.