Splinter meetings and hack-a-thon

Sessions slots

• Wednesday May 18 16:30-18:00 in various rooms in the conference centre
• Thursday May 19 16:30-18:00 outside venues (e.g. cafés) as the conference centre will be closed

Ideas and requests listed here

• STC-S Support
  • Goal: Develop a BNF (or equivalent) that can be used to develop software that can parse and write STC-S descriptions of regions
  • Comment: The STC Java library is on the schedule for Year 1 of the VAO at CfA. This will include STC-S parsing. Delivery date may be negotiable. I can show prototype GUI. -- ArnoldRots - 17 May 2011

• Photometry data modeling: 16:30 Room ??
  • how can we identify the various use-cases covered by the different proposed DMs : PhotDM, SpectrumDM-v1.2, SED DM
  • how can we go from simple spectrum to avanced data product like uniform SED?( SED DM)
  • how can we identify the various types of serialisations these DM are producing
  • tools to consume these various types of products

• TBD

• A usecase for (synthetic) stellar spectra within the VO
  • Goal: Derive a first estimate of the rotation velocity of a star