Sponsorship

Explicator

SKUA

Programme

Below is the provisional programme for the workshop.

Monday morning (09:00 - 12:30)

09:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Logistics Norman Gray 9:15 - 10:15 Ecoinformatics, data integration and data mining Joel Sachs 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee 10:45 - 11:15 Classifying Astronomical Objects Using Support Vector Machines Zach Ioannou Antonis Mpillis Dimitra Matsiki Ioannis Kompatsiaris 11:15 - 11:45 Automatic classification of large archives of astronomical texts Sergey Karpov Oleg Bartunov 11:45 - 12:30 Discussion

Lunch (12:30 -13:30)

Monday afternoon (13:30 - 17:15)

13:30 - 14:30 LOD Danny Ayers 14:30 - 15:00 The Future Digital Library for Astronomy Alberto Accomazzi 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee 15:30 - 16:00 ... but how will we find anything useful? Doug Burke 16:00 - 16:30 Metadata in the VizieR database Francois Ochsenbein 16:30 - 17:15 Discussion

Tuesday morning (9:00 - 12:15)

09:00 - 10:00 Geoinformatics and scientific data discovery Peter Fox 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee 10:30 - 11:00 Astrometry.net: Automatic meta-data creation for astronomical images Dustin Lang David W. Hogg 11:00 - 11:30 Retrofitting semantics -- semantics as a service Norman Gray 11:30 - 12:15 Discussion

Lunch (12:15 -14:00)

Tuesday afternoon (14:00 - 15:30)

Discussion

Wednesday morning (09:00 - 12:15)

09:00 - 10:00 Knowledge-based systems for reasoning Amedeo Napoli 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee 10:30 - 11:00 Towards Introduction of Semantics into the Infrastructure of Virtual Observatories Leonid Kalinichenko Oleg Malkov Nikolay Skvortsov Sergey Stupnikov Alexey Vovchenko 11:00 - 11:30 A radically pragmatic approach to astronomical data Matthew Graham 11:30 - 12:15 Discussion

Lunch (12:15 -13:30)

Wednesday afternoon (13:30 - 17:15)

13:30 - 14:30 SKOS and vocabularies Antoine Isaac 14:30 - 15:00 Use oriented astronomical data management: a tool Bernard Rothenburger 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee 15:30 - 16:00 Detailed Implementation Experiences from Topic-Centred Information Portals Kjetil Kjernsmo David Norheim Robert H P Engels 16:00 - 16:30 Spacebook: a demonstration of SKUA technology Tony Linde Norman Gray Kona Andrews 16:30 - 17:15 Discussion

Thursday morning (09:00 - 12:15)

09:00 - 10:00 Biological ontologies, encoding knowledge Robert Stevens 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee 10:30 - 11:00 Automated instantiation process for the ontology of astronomical object types Alexandre Richard Sebastien Derriere Andrea Preite-Martinez 11:00 - 11:30 Discourse, Ontologies and Data: the SWAN Discourse Ontology for Science on the Web Tim Clark 11:30 - 12:15 Discussion