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Workshop on Interfaces to Scientific Data Archives - Agenda
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Tuesday
March 24
7:00pm - 9:00pm Reception, San Marino Room
Wednesday
March 25
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 Introduction and Objectives
Roy Williams
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome
Steven Koonin, Provost, Caltech
9:00 - 9:30 Object Databases for High-Energy Physics
Julian Bunn, CERN
9:30 - 10:00 The Genesis Project for Neurobiology
Jenny Forss, Caltech
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 The LIGO Gravitational Wave Detector
Sam Finn, Northwestern University
11:00 - 11:30 Interfaces to the Digital Sky
Tom Prince, Caltech
11:30 - 12:00 ESO VLT Science Archive Research Environment
Miguel Albrecht and Peter Quinn, European Southern Observatory
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 On-demand Geodetic Imaging
Mark Simons, Caltech
1:30 - 2:00 The Earth Observing System
Ramachandra Suresh, NASA Goddard and Hughes STX
2:00 - 2:15 Mandate to the Groups
Roy Williams
2:15 - 3:15 Group Discussion
3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30 Group Discussion
4:30 - 5:30 Software demos and Micropresentations
7:00pm Workshop Dinner, Fountain Room
Speaker: Sid Karin, UC San Diego and Director, NPACI
Thursday
March 26
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 Molecular Dynamics Trajectory Database
Lennart Johnsson, University of Houston
9:00 - 9:30 Experiences with Distributed Environmental Data Repositories at SDSC
Richard Marciano, San Diego Supercomputer Center
9:30 - 10:00 The ASCI Scientific Data Management Tools
Celeste Matarazzo, Lawrence Livermore Lab
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Dublin Core Metadata: Conventions for resource description in the Internet Commons
Stuart Weibel, Online Computer Library Center
11:00 - 11:30 Overview of the Planetary Data System
Steve Hughes, JPL
11:30 - 12:00 Design Issues and Solutions at NCSA
Nancy Yeager, University of Illinois
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 Collaborative Access to Scientific Data
Geoffrey Fox, Syracuse University
1:30 - 2:00 The Digital Puglia Radar Atlas
Giovanni Aloisio, University of Lecce, and Roy Williams, Caltech
2:00 - 3:00 Group Discussion
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15 Group Discussion
4:15 - 5:30 Plenary Discussion and Results from Groups
Friday
March 27
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 - 11:30 Final Reports from Group Leaders
Group A: The User Experience (Pancake)
Group B: What Users Do at the Library (Matarazzo)
Group C: Implementation and Architecture (Bunn)
Group D: Metadata and Federation (Van de Velde)
Group E: Other People's Software (Messina)
11:30 - 12:00 Wrapup and conclusions
12:00 Workshop Ends