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, ...) (ppt)
  • Towards an IVOA Vocabulary (APM, NG, SD, ...)
  • Mapping between Vocabulary terms (Alasdair Gray ppt, pdf)
  • Publishing and maintaining vocabularies (NG, pdf)
  • Discussion to resolve the WD open issues. Conclusions summarised by APM in slides.

We will have 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.

Session 2 (tuesday 20, 9:00-10:30, Vulcania 1) (swap with Theory IG) (ppt)

UCDs

• New RFM?

Ontologies

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

Session 3: Joint Semantics/VOEvents/ReR/Theory

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

• Using vocabularies (APM, ppt)
  • VOEvent
  • Vocabularies and the registry (SD)
  • Discussion on how to exploit the vocabularies in a VO, e.g. by VOEvent, the registry, etc.
• A draft vocabulary for simulations (F.Le Petit)
• ...