IVOA Interoperability Meeting

14-19 May 2006: Victoria, Canada

Theory Sessions

The goal of the theory sessions is to get work done. Therefore the emphasis will be on discussing the developments so far: the use cases and proposals derived form this. The first two sessions will set the stage for the rest of the week where hopefully we will be able to organise smaller meetings in which the various issues will be discussed in more detail. The results of these will be summarized and discussed in the third session and presented to the plenary meeting on Friday.

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Agenda of sessions I and II (15 May, 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30)

1. Overview and plans (GL)
2. Summary Cambridge theory VO workshop (Laurie Shaw) - see page at CambridgeTheoryWorkshopFeb06
3. Summary France VO theory workshop (Herve Wozniak) - see meeting page
4. Summary use cases (GL)
5. Discussion use cases(All)

1. Registry for theorists (Ray Plante)
2. Characterisation for theorists (Mireille Louys)
3. UCDs for theorists: computation namespace (Laurie Shaw)
4. SSAP for theorists: TSAP (Pedro Osuna)
5. DAL for theorists: Implementation of the SNAP service for the TVO (Claudio Gheller)

1. Plans and working orders

Break out sessions, materials

1. UCDs
   • proposal for comp branch from LaurieShaw
   • Working document: Theory Semantic Vocabulary
   • Code model: ppt (Herve Wozniak)
2. Data formats
   • VOTable BINARY and FITS
   • ASCII, HDF-5 or other
   • translator codelets
3. SNAP
   • draft
4. Metadata
   • requirements: discovery, analysis ?
   • characterisation
   • provenance: code
   • physics: objects, theory

Agenda of session III (18 May, 11:00-12:30)

1. Discussion

Presentations

title	doc	author(s)
Characterisation applied to simulated data	ppt	MireilleLouys
Closing plenary	ppt	GerardLemson
Data modeling for simulations	ppt	GerardLemson
PPT opening plenary	ppt	GerardLemson
Session III	ppt	GerardLemson
Summary Paris TVO workshop	pdf	HerveWozniak
VisIVO and SNAP	ppt	ClaudioGheller

Documents

title	version	doc	author(s)
Requirements for including theory in the VO	0.1	TheoryWD.pdf	Shaw, Walton, Cervino
Theory IG Requirements on WGs	0.1	WG-Requirements.doc	GerardLemson
SNAP draft proposal	0	SNAP_Claudio.doc	LaurieShaw, ClaudioGheller