The Forums enable technology discussion involving the framework developers and ESFRI project staff, to develop technical collaboration and exchange good practice - establishing a European strategy for IVOA and RDA activities
(Top level DADI page: WP4: Data Access, Discovery and Interoperability (DADI))
Meeting: 17 & 18 September, 2015
Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg,
Strasbourg, FRANCE
Access Information
Please arrange your own hotel accommodation. Strasbourg has a lot to offer, and hotels in the central part of town are generally accessible by foot or tram.
(updated 16 September)
This is a 'working meeting' so the agenda will be adapted based on the contributions of the participants.
Location: Amphitheatre in the building with the big dome
| Time | Title | Speaker | Materials |
| Day 1 | Thursday September 17 | ||
| 9h | Coffee | ||
| 9h30 | Introduction to the Tech Forum, and round table introductions | Mark Allen & Keith Noddle | |
| 9h40 | Introduction to ASTERICS | Francoise Genova | introduction_to_asterics.pdf |
| 10h | Architecture of the IVOA | Christophe Arviset | IVOA Architecture Document 20150917-ivoa-architecture-arviset.pdf |
| 10h30 | Coffee | ||
| 11h | Supporting VO infrastructure, DADI activities | ||
| Technical Sustainability of the Euro-VO | Mark Allen | ||
| ASTERICS DADI Activities | Francoise Genova | asterics_dadi_activities.pdf | |
| 12h30 | Lunch (provided) | ||
| 14h | Presentations of ESFRI and pathfinder projects | ||
| EGO/VIRGO | Eric Chassande-Mottin | chassande-mottin_advirgo.pdf | |
| CTA | Catherine Boisson | strasbg_cta.pdf | |
| 15h30 | Coffee | ||
| 16h | Making the ESFRI & pathfinders participants in defining the VO | ||
| Summaries of activities of VO teams (10 min each) | |||
| INTA | Enrique Solano, presented by Carlos Rodrigo | carlos_techforum.pdf | |
| UEDIN | Andy Lawrence | edi-activities.pdf | |
| INAF | Marco Molinaro on behalf of Fabio Pasian | inafstatus.pdf | |
| CNRS | Francoise Genova | cds_techforum1_genova_final.pdf | |
| 17h30 | close | ||
| 19h | Tech Forum Dinner Restaurant:Restaurant on OpenStreetMap Au Pont Saint Martin website Address: 15 rue des Moulins | ||
| Day 2 | Friday September 18 | ||
| 9h | Contributed presentations | ||
| TOPCAT and TAP | Mark Taylor | tapcat.pdf | |
| Reviving and extending Pgsphere | Markus Nullmeier | dadi-rep-tf2015.pdf | |
| Provenance Data Model | Mireille Louys | vo-provenancepresentation-asterics2.pdf | |
| 10h | Observatory Coffee | ||
| 10h30 | Contributed presentations | ||
| INAF-OATs VO status | Marco Molinaro | oatsstatus.pdf | |
| ESA's Future Astronomy Multi-mission Interface | Jesus Salgado | mmi_strasbourg_asterics.pdf | |
| 11h10 | Hack-a-thon I (Hackathon Page) | Keith Noddle | |
| 12h | Lunch (provided) | ||
| 13h30 | Current IVOA standards in progress | ||
| Data Access Layer (DAL) Standards | Francois Bonnarel | astericstechforum2015.pdf | |
| 14h | Preparation for IVOA Interoperability Meeting | ||
| Progress toward registering HiPS data collections | Pierre Fernique | hips-fernique.pdf | |
| 14h50 | New-comer perceptions | ||
| 15h | Coffee | ||
| 15h30 | Hack-a-thon II | ||
| 17h | Conclusions | ||
| 17h30 | Close |
Program Organising Committee: Mark Allen, Keith Noddle (co-chairs)
Local Organising Committee: André Schaaff, Thomas Boch, Laurence Arbousse, Céline Halter, Mark Allen, Francoise Genova, Thomas Keller
Contact: tech_forum (at) astro.unistra.fr
| Mark Allen | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg |
| Andrew Lawrence | IfA, Edinburgh |
| Keith Noddle | IfA, Edinburgh |
| Mark Taylor | University of Bristol |
| Dave Morris | IfA, Edinburgh |
| Stelios Voutsinas | IfA, Edinburgh |
| Andre Schaaff | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, CNRS |
| Markus Nullmeier | ARI, UHEI, Heidelberg |
| Paul Sladen | ARI, UHEI, Heidelberg |
| Mireille Louys | CDS, ICube, Strasbourg |
| Francoise Genova | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, CNRS |
| Thomas Boch | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg |
| Sebastien Derriere | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg |
| Marco Molinaro | INAF - OATs |
| Ada Nebot | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg |
| Francois Bonnarel | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg,CNRS |
| Norman Gray | University of Glasgow |
| Pierre Fernique | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg |
| J. Manuel Alacid | INTA |
| Carlos Rodrigo | INTA |
| Michael Sipior | ASTRON/LOFAR |
| Giulia Iafrate | INAF-OATs |
| Paul Harrison | University of Manchester |
| Stefano Zampieri | ESO |
| Eric Chassande-Mottin | APC / Université de Paris-Diderot |
| Christophe Arviset | ESAC |
| Jesus Salgado | ESAC |
| Catherine Boisson | LUTH / Observatoire de Paris-Meudon |
| Mathieu Servillat | LUTH / Observatoire de Paris-Meudon |
| Anaïs Oberto | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, CNRS |
| François-Xavier Pineau | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg |
| Soizick Lesteven | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, CNRS |
| Gilles Landais | CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, CNRS |
| Laurent Michel | Observatoire de Strasbourg |
| 34 | participants |