  Astronomy is entering a new era as multiple, large area, digital sky surveys
are in production. The resulting datasets are truly remarkable in their own
right; however, a revolutionary step arises in the aggregation of complimentary
multi-wavelength surveys (i.e. the cross-identification of a billion sources).
Federating these different datasets, however, is an extremely challenging task.
With this task in mind, we have identified several areas where community
standardization can provide enormous benefits in order to develop the
techniques and technologies necessary to solve the problems inherent in
federating these large databases, as well as the mining of the resultant
aggregate data. Several of these areas are domain specific, however, the
majority of them are not. We feel that the inclusion of non-astronomical
partnerships can provide tremendous insights.
