VOEvent Workshop

April 13 and 14, Pasadena, California

Results & Discussion Documents:

Comprehensive VOEvent Example

Minimal VOEvent Example

Reference-only VOEvent Example

Proposal For VOEvent Syntax, Frederic Hessman

Schedule:

Click here for the schedule

Location:

CACR, California Institute of Technology (Directions)

Registration:

Please send email to Roy Williams (roy@caltech.edu).

Travel:

There is a list of Pasadena hotels on the Caltech website. Click here for Pasadena Hotels. The closest ones to Caltech (walking distance) on that list are the Saga Motor Hotel and The Westway Inn on Colorado Boulevard.

Agenda:

Focus Area 1 What are the purposes of a system that exchanges information about immediate astronomical events (VOEvents). How and why should we search and subscribe to such a feed? How would messages be generated from one telescope and be used to drive another telescope? What can be done with a federation of VOEvent data from different sources? (eg searching LIGO/GRB databases? Xray flash followed by optical transient?)

Focus Area 2 What is the semantic structure of a VOEvent message? Is the "Who, When, Where, What, How" paradigm the correct one? How should existing schema be integrated? Please try to read the existing draft semantics: http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaVOEvent/VOEvent-0.3.htm

Focus Area 3 How can we make a set of adjectives ("ontology") that can be used to describe a VOEvent (eg supernova, planetary volcano, magnitude increase, etc)

Focus Area 4 How can we build a system that exchanges VOEvent messages for the purposes that we uncover in Focus Area 1? What are the softeare components, protocols, and messages? What is the security infrastructure (if any)? Who can create and inject messages into the system? Who can read, subscribe, and query the messages?

Attachment	Action	Size	Date	Uploaded by	Comment
voevent-campusmap.jpg	manage	109.4 K	30 Mar 2005 - 19:00	SarahEmeryBunn	Caltech campus map showing location of workshop.
voevent_example.xml	manage	2.8 K	18 Apr 2005 - 16:43	SarahEmeryBunn	comprehensive VOEvent example
voevent_example_smallest.xml	manage	1.2 K	18 Apr 2005 - 16:44	SarahEmeryBunn	minimal VOEvent example
voevent_reference_only.xml	manage	0.2 K	18 Apr 2005 - 16:45	SarahEmeryBunn	reference-only VOevent example

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