Folks,
I've been industriously/doggedly plugging this workshop all over the
place, and have forgotten here.
Practical Semantic Astronomy is a workshop [1] being held in Glasgow
on 2-5 March this
year, with the early-registration deadline at the end of this week.
It's a repeat of a workshop in Caltech last year (Glasgow has more
rain, but better beer).
The format is, broadly, that none of the six invited speakers are
astronomers (two comp-sci folk, two applications folk, and two
scientists, namely a geophysicist and an ecologist), and more-or-less
all of the audience are. Thus the idea of the workshop as a whole is
to address the perception that astronomy is missing a trick here, and
that 'semantic technologies', broadly considered, offer practical
solutions at a variety of levels, which other disciplines are already
using to get science done.
No discounts for old Starlink lags, I'm afraid, but I'd hope it'd be
of some interest to folk here.
All the best,
Norman
[1] http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/workshops/semast09/
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Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk
Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester
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