NVO Spring Team Meeting
The Spring Team Meeting will be hosted at Caltech in Pasadena, California. It would also be helpful to know how many people are coming to the meeting. If you will be attending please sign up at the following URL:
http://www.us-vo.org/meetings/team0406/
The list of people who have already registered can be seen at
http://www.us-vo.org/meetings/team0406/list.cfm
Lodging
If you will be attending the spring team meeting at Caltech, please make
your hotel reservation as soon as you can. There is a block of rooms
reserved at the Athenaeum, Caltech's faculty club, for the nights of
April 2 and 3.
You should call the Ath directly (626-395-8200) to make your
reservation. Please say you are making the reservation in connection
with the NVO Team Meeting, confirmation number 7045184. $104 + tax is
the rate for a regular room.
Details about the Ath can be found here:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~ath/
As of March 2, the rooms at the Ath have been released. If you call and there are no rooms available, there is a list of
AlternateHotels.
Travel and other Logistical Information
Tentative Agenda (in progress)
Sun Apr 2
| Arrivals |
afternoon and evening; informal discussions |
Mon Apr 3
| 8:00am |
Breakfast |
| 8:30am |
Goals for this meeting, review of agenda, news, logistical matters |
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Technical status and review of progress (using IVOA InteropWGs to organize topics) |
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o Registry (Ray) PPT |
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o Data Models PPT and STC PPT (Jonathan, Arnold) |
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o Query Language (Maria) PDF |
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o Grid and Web Services (VOStore, Security) (Matthew, Ray) (VOSpace) PPT (Security) PPT |
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o Data Access Layer (SSAP, SIAP, SkyNode) (Doug) PPT |
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o Query capabilities and DAL services (Pat) PDF |
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o VOEvent (Roy) PPT |
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o Logging (Ani) PPT |
| 12:30pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30pm |
The NVO Software/Middleware Legacy |
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o Contents |
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o Organization |
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o Documentation |
| 2:30pm |
NVO Project perspectives on IVOA initiatives |
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o Priorities |
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o Pace |
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o Technical approach |
| 3:00pm |
Ontologies and data discovery (Ed) PPT |
| 3:30pm |
Theory in the VO - Update (Dave) PPT |
| 4:00pm |
Steps Toward the NVO Facility (Bob) PPT |
| 5:30pm |
Adjourn |
| 7:00pm |
Drinks |
| 7:45pm |
Dinner Map |
Tue Apr 4
| 8:00am |
Breakfast |
| 8:30am |
NVOSS-III planning (Tom) |
| 9:15am |
Footprint services (Tamas, Gretchen, Ryan) PPT |
| 10:00am |
Impact of the VO on data providers (Severin) |
| 10:30am |
Digital sky navigation and visualization interfaces (Roy, Andy) |
| 11:30pm |
Recap |
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o Priorities |
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o Actions |
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o Future events |
| 12:00pm |
Adjourn |