  The advent of wide-area multicolour synoptic sky surveys is leading to data
sets unprecedented in size, complexity and data throughput. VO technology
offers a way to exploit these to the full but requires changes in design
philosophy. The Palomar-QUEST survey is a major new survey being undertaken by
Caltech, Yale, JPL and Indiana University to repeatedly observe 1/3 of the sky
(~15000 sq. deg. between -27 < Dec <27 in seven passbands. Utilising the
48-inch Oschin Schmidt Telescope at the Palomar Observatory with the 112-CCD
QUEST camera covering the full 4 x 4 sq. deg. field of view, it will generate
\~1TB of data per month. In this paper, we review the design of QUEST as a VO
resource, a federated data set and an exemplar of VO standards.
