Practical Astroinformatics: semast09

semast09

Practical Semantic Astronomy 2009

Glasgow, UK, 2009 March 2--5

Workshop URL: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/workshops/semast09/

The workshop covered a broad range of semantic topics, and levels of formality, and we managed (mostly successfully) to match invited speakers with relevant contributed talks, in such a way that we started the week with very lightweight semantics, and ended with projects where the semantics was doing lots of heavy lifting.

Other resources

Astronomy/LOD links from Danny Ayers
Semantic Technologies community of practice, set up by Peter Winstanley to develop a set of resources around the 'business case' for using these technologies, in a form which can potentially be used for grant proposals, work proposals, consultancy proposals, and the like. The CoP is nominally concerned with local government, but Peter emphasises that business case resources should be appropriate for all sorts of contexts, and everyone is invited to join the CoP!

Presentations

The slides, broadly clustered round invited speakers, are below. The slides are also in a collection at the Glasgow University DSpace service, We hope to get these ADS bibcodes.

Danny Ayers – Linking Open Data

Alberto Accomazzi (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): The Future Digital Library for Astronomy
François Ochsenbein (CDS Strasbourg): Metadata in the VizieR database

Joel Sachs – Biodiversity and biocomplexity on the semantic web: data Integration; citizen science; and social computing

Peter Fox – Geoinformatics and scientific data discovery

Doug Burke (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): ... but how will we find anything useful?
Dustin Lang (University of Toronto), David W. Hogg: Astrometry.net: Automatic meta-data creation for astronomical images
Norman Gray (University of Leicester): Retrofitting semantics -- semantics as a service
Tony Linde (University of Leicester), Norman Gray, Kona Andrews: Spacebook: a demonstration of SKUA technology

Antoine Isaac – Publishing vocabularies on the semantic web using SKOS - with examples from Cultural Heritage

Bernard Rothenburger (INRIA/IRIT): What happened to our data? a visualisation proposal
Kjetil Kjernsmo (Computas AS, Norway), David Norheim, Robert H P Engels : Implementation Experiences from Topic-Centred Information Portals

Amedeo Napoli – Elements on knowledge discovery, ontologies and semantic web

Xinglong Wang (University of Manchester) : Semantic enrichment of data from literature
Matthew Graham (Caltech) : A (radically) pragmatic approach to astronomical data

Robert Stevens – Making Semantics do some Work

Alexandre Richard (INAF), Sebastien Derriere, Andrea Preite-Martinez: Automated instantiation process for the ontology of astronomical object types