Workshop Agenda

Monday 18 February
08:30 Breakfast  
09:00 Matthew Graham Welcome + logistics
Session One (Chair Sebastian Derriere)
09:15 Deborah McGuinness Semantically-enabled Virtual Observatories
10:15 Coffee break  
10:45 Alexandre Richard Object Types Validation in SIMBAD
11:15 Rick Wagner Characterization of simulation data in the CADAC
11:45 Discussion  
12:30 Lunch break  
Session Two (Chair: Brian Thomas)
13:30 Peter Fox Exploiting Semantic Technologies in the Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory
14:30 Roy Williams Unified Content Descriptors
15:00 Coffee break  
15:30
Ashish Mahabal The relevance of topic maps
16:00 Discussion  
Tuesday 19 February
08:30 Breakfast  
Session Three (Chair: George Djorgovski)
09:00
Tony Hey Practical Semantic Technologies and Astronomy
10:00 Kirk Borne A Classification Broker for Petascale Surveys
10:30 Coffee break  
11:00 Matthew Graham Mirabile Dictu: The Semantics of the Wondrous
11:30 Discussion  
12:30 Lunch break  
Session Four (Chair: Roy Williams)
13:30 Mark Wilkinson Web Service Interoperability - it's better than sharing your toothbrush!
14:30 Norman Gray SKUA: a distributed semantic store
15:00 Coffee break  
15:30 Tony Linde Spacebook: a test case for SKUA
16:00 Discussion  
19:00 Workshop Dinner Bistro 45 - 45 S. Mentor Avenue (see map)
Wednesday 20 February
08:30 Breakfast  
Session Five (Chair: Matthew Graham)
09:00
Katy Borner The Science of Science

10:00

Ed Shaya The Astronomical e-Brain
10:30 Coffee break  
11:00 Brian Thomas A graphical user interface for doing science with ontological data
11:30 Discussion  
12:30 Lunch break  
Session Six (Chair: Norman Gray)
13:30 Tara Murphy Unlocking astronomy knowledge from the literature
14:00 Alberto Accomazzi The search for structure in the bibliosphere
14:30 Bernard Rothenburger How to maintain intelligibility of scientific archives using ontology and text
15:00 Coffee break  
15:30 Discussion  
16:30 Discussion IVOA Semantics
Thursday 21 February
08:30 Breakfast  
09:00 Hackathon  
10:30 Coffee Break  
12:30 Adjourn