The UK’s AstroGrid is a ~£14M (over the period 2001-2009) project aimed at building a data-grid for UK astronomy, which will form the UK contribution to a global VirtualObservatory.
A Taverna 1.x processor has been written to enable client-site AstroGrid utilities to be included within Taverna workflows.
Publications
A book chapter “AstroGrid and the Virtual Observatory”, Walton, N. A., Gonzalez-Solareson, E., Springer, Lecture Notes in Physic, vol. 791, pp. 81-113, 2009.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/yk36404544k778g8
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009MmSAI..80..574B
Taverna and Workflows in the Virtual Observatory, Walton, N. A.; Witherwick, D. K.; Oinn, T.; Benson, K. M., Proceedings of the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems ASP Conference Series, London, UK. Edited by Robert W. Argyle, Peter S. Bunclark, and James R. Lewis., p.309, 2008.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ASPC..394..309W
