IVOA Interoperability meeting

19-23 May 2008: Stazione Marittima, Trieste, ITALY

IVOA Interoperability meeting

Meeting Web site

Detailed information is available at the meeting webpage.

Important Dates

Start registration: 29 March 2008

End registration: 9 May 2008

Overview

The May 08 Interop meeting will be held from May 18th to 23rd at the main congress centre in Trieste, the “Stazione Marittima” building, conveniently located on the waterfront in the centre of town ( glossy info ).

InterOpMay2008-rooms

The Interop will be held on the first floor of the building: with reference to the floor map on the left, the Oceania A+B+C room (275 seats) will host the plenary sessions, Oceania A+B (120 seats), Vulcania1 (130 seats) and Vulcania2 (35 seats) will be used for splinter sessions and group meetings. Wi-fi will be available in all these rooms. Other rooms (25-35 seats) may be available upon request for separate meetings.

Coffee breaks will be served in the bar; for the lunches, it will be necessary to make one's own arrangements.

Program

Final Program The general meeting will begin at 09.00 on the Monday and close at 15.40 on the Friday.

Date	Time	Place	Activity	Comments
Sun 18 May 2008
	18.00-20.00	Vulcania 2	IVOA Exec Meeting	Exec Only
Mon 19 May 2008
	08.30-09.00	Hall	Registration
	09.00-09.05	Oceania ABC	Welcome and Logistics	Fabio Pasian
	09.05-09.30	Oceania ABC	State of the IVOA	Dave De Young
	09.30-09.50	Oceania ABC	State of the TCG	Roy Williams
	09.50-10.10	Oceania ABC	The International Planetary Data Alliance	M.Teresa Capria
	10.10-10.30	Oceania ABC	The VO Scenario for Solar and Solar-Terrestrial Physics	Mauro Messerotti
	10.30-11.00		*Coffee*
	11.00-12.05	Oceania ABC	Charge to the working groups	Plenary
	12.05-14.30		*Lunch*
	14.30-16.00		WG parallel sessions 1
		Ocean AB	DM/VOQL/VOTable: Units, UFI, UTYPES	InterOpMay2008DataModels
		Vulcania 1	Registry: Integration and Interoperability	InterOpMay2008ResReg
	16.00-16.30		*Coffee*
	16.30-18.00		WG parallel sessions 2
		Ocean AB	Apps: SAMP1	InterOpMay2008Applications#SAMP_Sessions
		Vulcania 1	Semantics: Vocabularies and matching	InterOpMay2008Semantics
Tue 20 May 2008
	09.00-10.30		WG parallel sessions 3
		Ocean AB	DAL: TAP	DAL Sessions
		Vulcania 1	Semantics: Ontologies and use cases	InterOpMay2008Semantics
	10.30-11.00		*Coffee*
	11.00-12.30		WG parallel sessions 4
		Ocean AB	Apps: Applications 1	InterOpMay2008Applications
		Vulcania 1	Reg: Registry Extension	InterOpMay2008ResReg
	12.30-14.20		*Lunch*
	14.25		*Group photo*
	14.30-16.00		WG parallel sessions 5
		Ocean AB	Special: KML for Astronomy	InterOpMay2008KML
		Vulcania 1	AstroRG/GWS: Grid Activities	InterOpMay2008GridAndWebServices
	16.00-16.30		*Coffee*
	16.30-18.00		WG parallel sessions 6
		Ocean AB	Apps: Applications 2	InterOpMay2008Applications
		Vulcania 1	Theory: Micro-simulations and Semantics	InterOpMay2008Theory
	19.30-23.00		Banquet	Buses pick up participants near Congress Hall
Wed 21 May 2008
	09.00-10.30		WG parallel sessions 7
		Ocean AB	VOQL: Presentation on ADQL document	RFC Page
		Vulcania 1	Apps: SAMP2	InterOpMay2008Applications#SAMP_Sessions
	10.30-11.00		*Coffee*
	11.00-12.30		WG parallel sessions 8
		Ocean AB	DAL: TAP (cont.)	DAL Sessions
		Vulcania 1	VOEvent: Registration and Signatures	InterOpMay2008VOEvent
	12.30-14.30		*Lunch*
		Vulcania 2	IVOA Exec Lunch Meeting	Exec Only
	14.30-16.00	Vulcania 1	Special: "Multi-disciplinary" Meeting	InterOpMay2008MultiDisciplinary
	14.30-17.30		Sightseeing tour	Guide picks up participants in front of Congress Hall
Thu 22 May 2008
	09.00-10.30		WG parallel sessions 9
		Ocean AB	DM: On-going DMs	InterOpMay2008DataModels
		Vulcania 1	GWS: VOSpace	InterOpMay2008GridAndWebServices
	10.30-11.00		*Coffee*
	11.00-12.30		WG parallel sessions 10
		Ocean AB	DAL: S*AP and Footprint	DAL Sessions
		Vulcania 1	GWS: Web Service Interoperability	InterOpMay2008GridAndWebServices
		Vulcania 2	Theory: SNAP	InterOpMay2008Theory
	12.30-14.30		*Lunch*
	14.30-16.00		WG parallel sessions 11
		Ocean AB	Apps: Applications 3	InterOpMay2008Applications
		Vulcania 1	VOEvent: VOEvent 2.0	InterOpMay2008VOEvent
	16.00-16.30		*Coffee*
	16.30-18.00		WG parallel sessions 12
		Ocean AB	DAL/GWS/Registry: VOSI	InterOpMay2008GridAndWebServices
		Vulcania 1	Semantics/VOEvent: Vocabularies and UCDs	InterOpMay2008Semantics
	18.30-19.30		Concert	followed by reception (light buffet)
Fri 23 May 2008
	09.00-10.30		WG parallel sessions 13
		Ocean AB	DCP: Summary of activities	InterOpMay2008DCP
		Vulcania 1	Registry: Future Directions	InterOpMay2008ResReg
	10.30-11.00		*Coffee*
	11.00-11.15	Ocean AB	DAL: TAP	Plenary (pdf)
	11.15-12.45		WG parallel sessions 14
		Ocean AB	DM: Practical use of DM	InterOpMay2008DataModels
		Vulcania 1	GWS: Integration and Interoperability	InterOpMay2008GridAndWebServices
	12.45-14.30		*Lunch*
	14.30-15.35	Oceania ABC	WG/IG session summaries	Plenary
	15.35-15.40	Oceania ABC	Baltimore Interop	Bob Hanisch
	15.40-15.45	Oceania ABC	Closing Remarks	Dave De Young
	15.45		*CLOSE*