The workshop will be held at Caltech in the Millikan board room, building 32 on the Caltech campus. (There is a PDF file of the campus map here)
| Monday 18 February |
| 08:30 |
Breakfast |
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| 09:00 |
Matthew Graham |
Welcome + logistics |
| Session One (Chair: Roy Williams) |
| 09:15 |
Deborah McGuinness |
Semantically-enabled Virtual Observatories (PDF) |
| 10:15 |
Coffee break |
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| 10:45 |
Alexandre Richard |
Object Types Validation in SIMBAD (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 11:15 |
Rick Wagner |
Characterization of simulation data in the CADAC (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 11:45 |
Discussion |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch break |
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| Session Two (Chair: Brian Thomas) |
| 13:30 |
Peter Fox |
Exploiting Semantic Technologies in the Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 14:30 |
Roy Williams |
Unified Content Descriptors (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 15:00 |
Coffee break |
|
15:30
|
Ashish Mahabal |
The relevance of topic maps (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 16:00 |
Discussion |
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| Tuesday 19 February |
| 08:30 |
Breakfast |
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| Session Three (Chair: George Djorgovski) |
09:00
|
Tony Hey |
Practical Semantic Technologies and Astronomy (PDF) |
| 10:00 |
Kirk Borne |
A Classification Broker for Petascale Surveys (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 10:30 |
Coffee break |
|
| 11:00 |
Matthew Graham |
Mirabile Dictu: The Semantics of the Wondrous (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 11:30 |
Discussion |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch break |
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| Session Four (Chair: Sebastian Derriere) |
| 13:30 |
Mark Wilkinson |
Web Service Interoperability - it's better than sharing your toothbrush! (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 14:30 |
Norman Gray |
SKUA: a distributed semantic store (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 15:00 |
Coffee break |
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| 15:30 |
Tony Linde |
Spacebook: a test case for SKUA (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 16:00 |
Discussion |
|
| 19:00 |
Workshop Dinner |
Bistro 45 - 45 S. Mentor Avenue (see map). The organizers wish to thank Microsoft Research for their sponsorship of the dinner. |
| Wednesday 20 February |
| 08:30 |
Breakfast |
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| Session Five (Chair: Matthew Graham) |
09:00
|
Katy Borner |
The Science of Science (Abstract) (PDF) |
10:00
|
Ed Shaya |
The Astronomical e-Brain (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 10:30 |
Coffee break |
|
| 11:00 |
Brian Thomas |
A graphical user interface for doing science with ontological data (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 11:30 |
Discussion |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch break |
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| Session Six (Chair: Norman Gray) |
| 13:30 |
Tara Murphy |
Unlocking astronomy knowledge from the literature (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 14:00 |
Alberto Accomazzi |
The search for structure in the bibliosphere (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 14:30 |
Bernard Rothenburger |
How to maintain intelligibility of scientific archives using ontology and text (Abstract) (PDF) |
| 15:00 |
Coffee break |
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| 15:30 |
Discussion |
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| 16:30 |
Discussion |
IVOA Semantics |
| Thursday 21 February |
| 08:30 |
Breakfast |
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| 09:00 |
Hackathon |
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| 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 12:30 |
Adjourn |
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