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Highlights:
  The availability of press release materials from astronomical resources through the NVO through a simplified interface will greatly enhance the utility of these materials for the public. Behind any portal to NVO data there is a standard registry and data structures that allow collections of data (such as the press release images) to be located and acquired. We will describe our design of the necessary protocols and metadata being used within the NVO framework for this project. We base our meta-tags on the considerable existing work done in the science community as well as the NASA education community. These refined metadata are applied to new HST press-release images as they are produced and registered with the NVO. We will describe methods for retrofitting pre-existing imagery with the metadata standards.

Revelance to NASA:
  Information retrieval and Access  Information technologies developed for the National Virtual Observatory and the NASA Education Resource Directory are being merged. This is a flagship project for allowing access to the resources developed for press releases through a state of the art infrastructure.

Application to NASA AMission and Programs:
  General purpose Software Tools/Suites of Tools  All NASA missions can use the product. Today, the focus is on Space Science missions: HST, Chandra, Galex, SPITZER - any mission with holdings in the National Virtual Observatory.  The end user is the public, students, teachers and media.

Tracking:
  Web statistics through external portals, statistics through the NVO architecture and direct user feedback.

Upcoming Plans:
  This is a pilot project. We develop the protocol and the metatags to interface with the public portal being developed by Berkeley.