Semantics

InterOpMay2008 Sessions

Trieste, May 19-23

Session 1 (monday 19, 16:30-18:00, Vulcania 1)

Vocabularies

• Overview of vocabulary document (APM), plus open issues (NG, AG, ...)
  • Mapping between Vocabulary terms (Alasdair Gray)
  • Towards an IVOA Vocabulary (APM, NG, SD, ...)
  • Publishing and maintaining vocabularies (NG ...)
  • Discussion to resolve the WD open issues
• Using vocabularies (to be moved to Session 3?)
  • VOEvent
  • Vocabularies and the registry (SD)
  • Discussion about using vocabularies

How about a brief introduction (5-10mins) of the themes in the WD, then some talks to highlight the open issues (10-15 mins each) and then a discussion at that point on how to resolve these.

We could then have some talks and a discussion on how to exploit the vocabularies in a VO, e.g. by VOEvent, the registry, etc.

Session 2 (tuesday 20, 16:30-18:00, Vulcania 1)

Ontologies

• The ontology of object types and vocabularies (APM, SD, AR)
• Use cases (SD)
• Linking Open Data - arXiv, ADS and more (Norman Gray)
• ...

Session 3: Joint Semantics/VOEvents

(thursday 22, 16:30-18:00, Vulcania 1)

Vocabularies, UCDs

• ...