DS5 : Intelligent Resource Discovery

DS5 is a design study with the following objectives:

• Assess technologies relevant to astronomical resource discovery
• Design new infrastructural components using these technologies
• Produce trial implementations of such new components

Scope

The first goal of DS5 is to undertake a feasibility study for developing components based on emergent technologies in the areas of the Semantic Web and Ontologies. This study will be used as a reference for actual component designs and trial implementations, and ultimately developments of standards at the IVOA level.

The feasibility study will consist in two parallel actions:

• surveying available techniques, standards and tools related to the Semantic Web and Ontologies, identifying their scope, community-support and limitations.
• identifying a list of possible science cases where intelligent resource discovery tools could be developed for astronomers, highlighting interactions with related IVOA working groups when relevant.

A short-list of component designs and trial implementations will stem from the combination of these two actions. Participants in DS5 will then focus on these selected science-cases. Building on the knowledge gained from these experiments, standards should be suggested for acceptance by the IVOA.

Because the semantic web and ontologies are active research topics, a technology watch for the evolution of techniques, standards and tools will have to be performed throughout the VOTech project duration (e.g. the evolution of available techniques could allow during year 3 the development of applications that would have been judged unrealistic in Stage 01).

There is a list of OntologyUseCases elsewhere

Participants

• SebastienDerriere (Workgroup Leader)
• AndreaPreiteMartinez
• MarcoLeoni
• ThomasBoch
• BriceGassmann
• ElizabethAuden
• TonyLinde
• NormanGray
• AlexandreRichard
• ChristianBonnin
• BrunoRino

Stage Plans and Reports

• Stage 01 (Jan-Sep 2005)
  • DS5Plan01 : initial stage plan
  • DS5EndRep01^? : report at end of stage
• Stage 02 (Oct 2005 - Mar 2006)
  • DS5Plan02 : initial plan for StageTwo
• Stage 03 (Apr-Sep 2006)
  • DS5Plan03 : initial plan for StageThree
• Stage 04 (Oct 2006 - Mar 2007)
  • DS5Plan04 : initial plan for StageFour
• Stage 05 (Apr-Sep 2007)
  • DS5Plan05 : initial plan for StageFive
• Stage 06 (Oct 2007 - Mar 2008)
  • DS5Plan06 : initial plan for StageSix
• Stage 07 (Apr-Sep 2008)
  • DS5Plan07 : initial plan for StageSeven

Meetings and Telecons

• DS5PlanningStage01 : initial planning meeting to scope out first stage work
• DS5PlanningStage02 : DSRP (review and planning meeting), Edinburgh, sep 15 2005
• DS5PlanningStage03 : DSRP (review+demos and planning meeting), Sorrento, mar 07 2006
• DS5PlanningStage04 : ditto, Strasbourg, 4-7 September 2006
• ProtegeConference2005 : feedback from the 8th Protégé conference
• ISWC2005 : feedback from the ISWC 2005: 4th international semantic web conference
• SW Interop Workshop 2006-03 A `Semantic Interoperability workshop at Imperial College, 20 March 2006.
• ESWC2006 : comments, notes and feedback from the ESWC'06: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference
• ISWC2006 : random notes from the 5th International Semantic Web Conference
• ESWC2007 : notes from the 2007 European Semantic Web conference
• AHM07 : notes from the 2007 UK e-Science All-Hands meeting

See also...

• Forum: http://forum.eurovotech.org/viewforum.php?f=6
• Mailing list is ds5@eurovotech.org
  • see http://forum.eurovotech.org/viewtopic.php?t=6 for subscription instrcutions
• IRD at VOTechKickoff meeting:
  • presentations
  • DS5 workshop minutes
• IrdBooks: books which might prove useful
• IrdSites: other sites which deal with semantic resource discovery or related topics
• OntologySurvey: links, papers, and review of ontology use in research
• eXist: study and tests on this XML database
• SED construction: report for the CDS VOTech meeting of August 2005
• SED construction: report for the CDS VOTech meeting of March 2006