Agenda
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[edit] Monday, 11 June - Special Workshops
1200-1300 Lunch in Red Rover room
1300-1600 The Globus Toolkit in CyberInfrastructure: Examples and Lessons by L Liming - in Hopscotch Room
1300-1700 NASA VOHD/VxO: PI meeting for the NASA program - By invitation only - in Red Rover Room
0830-1730 Registration at The Curtis in Third floor foyer
1830-2100 Opening Reception (off-site)
[edit] Tuesday, 12 June - Conference
0800-0900 Breakfast; Registration
0900-0915 Welcome
0915-1015 Session I: History and Background of VOs
- Session Chair: Peter Fox
- 0915-0945 A Brief History of the 50-Year-Old Space Physics Data Environment by J King
- 0945-1015 Events Unimportant: A Short History of the Virtual Solar Observatory by J Gurman
1015-1030 Break
1030-1230 Session II: Science Requirements of VOs and Use Cases
- Session Chair: Robert Bentley
- 1030-1100 Scientific Data Stewardship and the VO's by Eric Kihn
- 1100-1130 Searching for Data with the Virtual ITM Observatory by D Morrison et al.
- 1130-1200 Water Vapour Total Column Measurements with Elodie at Observatoire de Haute Provence from 1994 to 2005 by A Sarkissian
- 1200-1230 The Virtual Observatory in Action: Recurring Themes in Polar Science Use Cases by J Collins
1230-1400 Lunch; Poster Session and Demonstrations
1400-1600 Session III A: VO General Session
- Session Chair: Bernd Ritschel
- 1400-1430 SPASE Data Model and Ontology - Current Status and Overview by J Thieman et al.
- 1430-1500 AstroGrid: the UK Virtual Observatory by E Auden et al.
- 1500-1530 EGSO - A Tool for the Solar Community by Robert Bentley
- 1530-1600 Virtual Observatories for the Geosciences in the Context of Data Stewardship by R Duerr et al.
1600-1630 Break
1630-1800 Session III B: Data Providers and VOs - Exploring New Roles
- Session Chair: Deborah McGuinness
- 1630-1700 Working with Data Providers in a Distributed Data Environment by R J Walker et al. (presented by Todd King)
- 1700-1730 NASA’s EOSDIS and VOiG Objectives: A Comparison by E J Sofinowski et al.
- 1730-1800 OneGeology: creating the infrastructure for the dynamic and interoperable delivery of global digital geological map data by I Jackson et al. (presented by L Wyborn)
1800-1800 Adjourn
1830-2200 Evening Reception (off-site)
[edit] Wednesday, 13 June - Conference
0800-0900 Breakfast
0900-1100 Session IV A: Use Cases and meta-requirements for VOs (Red Rover Room)
- Session Chair: Lesley Wyborn
- 0900-0930 How to make the VxOs scientifically useful? Are we still missing some ingredients? by A Szabo
- 0930-1000 Issues related to designing a VO for Heliophysics by Robert Bentley
- 1000-1030 Use cases and the VSTO by Peter Fox et al.
- 1030-1100 Best Practices from the Library and Information Science Community by J Hourcle
0900-1100 Session IV B: Discipline-specific VxOs and Interdisciplinary VOs (Marco Polo Ballroom)
- Session Chair: Aaron Roberts
- 0900-0930 The Architecture of a Multi-tiered Virtual Observatory - The VMO by T King et al.
- 0930-1000 The Virtual Space Physics Observatory as a Portal to the Heliophysics Great Observatory by Aaron Roberts et al.
- 1000-1030 The Virtual Radiation Belt Observatory by R Weigel et al.
- 1030-1100 Capabilities of NASA’s Space Physics Data Facility as Resources to Enable the Heliophysics Virtual discipline Observatories (VxOs) by R McGuire et al.
1100-1130 Break
1130-1300 Session V: Detailed Architecture of VxOs
- Session Chair: Aaron Roberts
- 1130-1150 The Global Earth Observation Integrated Data Environment (GEO-IDE) as a virtual observatory by Eric Kihn et al.
- 1150-1210 VSO: Technical Status, Issues, and Lessons Learned by J Gurman et al.
- 1210-1230 Distributed development tools and management approaches for the VxO environment: The Linux lessons by J Merka et al.
- 1230-1300 VxO Discussion led by T King
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1600 Session VI A: VO Contributions, State of the Art, Best Practices
- Session Chair: Bill Peterson
- 1400-1430 WOVOdat: (The World Organization of Volcano Observatories Database of Volcanic Unrest): post-design phase pilot application development by F Schwandner et al.
- 1430-1500 Networking online geodata sources using Sensor Web Enablement techniques for the creation of Virtual Observatories in Geoscience by Bernd Ritschel
- 1500-1530 An Observation Knowledgebase for Heliophysics data by N Hurlburt et al.
1530-1600 Break
1600-1830 Session VII: Interoperability, Catalogs, Query Languages and Standards
- Session Chair: Peter Fox
- 1600-1630 Real time global Interoperability of Geoscience data is this really achievable? by Lesley Wyborn
- 1630-1700 A Brave New (Virtual) World: Distributed Searches, Relevance Scoring and Facets by T King et al.
- 1700-1730 HQL - Because SQL was already taken by T Narock et al.
- 1730-1800 Enabling Integrated Analysis using Standardized, Measurement-Based Data Interfaces by J Vandegriff et al.
- 1800-1830 Interoperabilty for VxOs in Heliophysics by Aaron Roberts
1830-1830 Adjourn - Free Evening
[edit] Thursday, 14 June - Conference
0800-0900 Breakfast
0830-1000 Session VIII A: Metadata, Vocabularies and Semantics
- Session Chair: Mark Parsons
- 0830-0900 Lightweight Semantics for Geoinformatics by Deborah McGuinness
- 0900-0930 DLESE and metadata - lessons learned by K Ginger et al.
- 0930-1000 Mercury - Distributed Metadata Management, Data Discovery and Access System by G Palanisamy
1000-1030 Break
1030-1130 Session VIII B: VOs: Educational, Developing Countries, Marketing
- Session Chair: T King
- 1030-1100 The plague of too much data? Challenges and opportunities for using virtual observatories in the classroom by E CoBabe-Ammann
- 1100-1130 VESO: Virtual Earth-Sun Observatory in Mexico by A Gonzalez-Esparza
1130-1230 Poster Session 2, Discussions and Demonstrations
1230-1330 Lunch
1330-1530 Session IX A: Accommodating Users: Data Access, Tools, Security, Resource Control and Policies
- Session Chair: M Weiss
- 1330-1400 VMO User Support: The Well-Equipped Workbench for Data Providers by L F Bargatze et al.
- 1400-1430 Best Practices for User Management and Registration in Virtual Observatories by J Garcia et al.
- 1430-1500 Distributed Data Access in a Virtual Observatory Environment by P West et al.
- 1500-1530 Object Persistence within Information Systems, How Relational Databases and Data Access Frameworks Interoperate with Ontology Based Portals by J Garcia et al.
1530-1600 Break
1600-1700 Session X: International Programs, Funding, Coordination, Closing Session, Discussion Session and Conference Summary
- Session Chair: Peter Fox
- 1600-1630 The World Data Centers: A Successful 50 Years and the Challenges of the 21st Century by William Denig and the WDC panel
- 1630-1700 Discussion Session and Closing by P Fox
1700-1700 Adjourn
1730-2100 Closing Reception (off-site)
- Contributions by internet
- Virtual Geomagnetic Observatory by F Peng
