The meeting will take place from Monday 28th, 9:30, to Tuesday 29th,
16:00, at the Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Université,
Strasbourg, in the lecture hall in the main building
(a recent
photograph of the building
- don't worry, it will not be snowing in Strasbourg on Monday!).
The objectives of the meeting are to circulate information among the
participants, to discuss some topics in more detail, and to build a
draft roadmap for development of exchange standards. Metadata are the
key to a really global VO. How are we going to work together to make
sure that we reach consensus on metadata standards?
1.1 Monday, January 28, 2002
A few words by each participant, explaining his/her work and
interest in the subject
Interoperability in the AVO (F. Genova), NVO (R. Hanisch, R.
Plante) and AstroGRID (Clive Page) projects
Lessons learnt and on-going projects
Table description, astrores, VOtable; astrores implementation at CDS (F.
Ochsenbein); astrores implementation within the HEASARC (T. McGlynn)
AstroBrowse/AstroGLU/ISAIA (R.Plante, CDS)
ClassX metadata exercise , UCDs
ADEC interoperability actions (T. McGlynn)
AstroWise (E. Deul)
A typical AstroVirtel problem (A. Micol)
Open questions
1.2 Tuesday, January 29, 2002 (possibly also end
of Monday afternoon)
It is proposed to choose two or three topics and to discuss them in more
detail. This can remain flexible to take into account Monday
discussions. Among the possible topics:
How do we organize the next steps of metadata standard discussion?
Most participants are leaving on Tuesday evening.
Some of you would like to have informal discussions
Wednesday. We will make sure that one or several meeting rooms are
available for that purpose if needed.