* What is Semantic Astronomy?

There is a sizable international effort working on the Virtual Observatory; there is a considerably larger worldwide effort to make the Semantic Web a reality and where these two concerns intersect is Semantic Astronomy.

As a field, it includes subjects such as:

The promise for astronomy (and other sciences) includes:

What is particularly exciting is that the Semantic Web has become a set of practical engineering challenges, more concerned with deployment and performance details than AI abstractions, and so we can now start to employ that community's more successful ideas in astronomy.

* Aims & Objectives

This workshop aims to:

Organization Committees

For more information about the Workshop, write to:
"semantic-astro
at cacr.caltech.edu"

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