FYI - email about the VO tutorials before ADASS. Norman was thinking about
an RDF tutorial but I would guess that it might be sidelined along with
Topic Maps.

...David

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Hanisch [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 August 2003 17:30
To: Pallavi Kulkarni; Guy Rixon; [log in to unmask];
[log in to unmask]; Ashish Mahabal; Doug Tody; Gretchen Greene;
Maria Antonia Nieto-Santisteban; Wil O'Mullane; Tamas Budavari;
Christophe ARVISET; Giaretta, DL (David) ; [log in to unmask]; Tom
McGlynn; Ray Plante
Subject: final program, ADASS VO Tutorial


Thank you all for volunteering to share your experience and wisdom at the
ADASS VO Tutorial. My goal in this tutorial is primarily to expose people
outside of the main VO projects to the emerging framework, and to show that
VO-enabled software development is not mysterious or overly difficult.

A simple agenda of individual talks leads to a time constraint of at most 20
minutes per talk, including questions and discussion:

13:00 Introduction
Bob Hanisch, STScI

13:05 The VO Data Access Layer Doug Tody,
NRAO

13:20 Cone Search and SIA Services Gretchen Greene, STScI

13:40 Integrating Cone Search Services Into an Tom
McGlynn, GSFC

            X-Ray Source Classifier

14:00 Simple Image Access for Pedro Osuna,
VILSPA

XMM-Newton and ISO

14:20 The SDSS Image Cut-Out Service Maria Nieto, JHU

14:40 Data Models as Software David
Giaretta, RAL

Development Tools

15:00 Break

15:20 VOTable Interfaces and Utilities Sonali
Kale, Pallavi Kulkarni,

VO-India

15:40 Registry Services
Wil O'Mullane, JHU

16:00 How to Register a Resource Ray
Plante, NCSA

16:20 VO Web Services André Schaaff,
CDS

16:40 Using VO Web Services Tamas
Budavari, JHU

17:00 Grid Services
Guy Rixon, Cambridge

17:20 Topic Maps, VO Statistics Ashish
Mahabal, Caltech

17:40 Adjourn


Upon reflection and with feedback from some of my NVO colleagues, it seems
to make more sense to restructure the tutorial around topical themes, and to
ask contributors to work together to consolidate information. So, as an
alternative, let me suggest the following organization:

13:00 Introduction (BH)
13:05 VOTable - what it is, i/o libraries, browsing/plotting applications
o Lead: Sonali Kale
o Contributors: Pallavi Kulkarni, David Giaretta, Francois Ochsenbein, et
al.
14:15 Data Access Layer -- cone search, SIA, SSA
o Lead: Doug Tody
o Contributors: Gretchen Greene, Tom McGlynn, Pedro Osuna, et al.
15:25 Break
15:45 Registries -- purpose, design, use, implementations
o Lead: Ray Plante
o Contributors: Wil O'Mullane, Tony Linde/AstroGrid reps, Bob Hanisch, et
al.
16:45 Web and Grid Services
o Lead: Andre Schaaff
o Contributors: Tamas Budavari, Guy Rixon, Wil O'Mullane, et al.
18:00 Close

This scheme does not provide an obvious place for Ashish's presentation;
perhaps we should hold this for another time, Ashish, when we can focus more
on statistical and data mining applications. What do you think?

In the spirit of a tutorial, presentations should emphasize how to do things
and should not simply be dog-and-pony shows of one or another neat thing
that someone did.

Please let me know if you agree with this approach. Those of you I mention
above as leads -- are you willing to take on this responsibility?

If we agree on this, I will then ask the ADASS organizers to post the
general topic areas, their leaders, and suggest that people who wish to
contribute contact the topic leader.

Many thanks,
Bob