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CoSADIE - Collaborative and Sustainable Astronomical Data Infrastructure for Europe

Third Technology Forum

12-13 March 2014, Trieste, Italy

The Third CoSADIE Technology Forum will be held in Trieste, Italy, in the premises of the Villa Bazzoni site of the INAF-OATs (check how to reach it in the Other Information section).

It will be preceded by a splinter meeting on Theory which will be held 10 March - 11 March.

The Technology Forum itself will be held 12 - 13 March.

Meeting objectives

Information and exchange on VO technology development in European teams. We will discuss current hot topics related to the IVOA including airing some new proposals as well as co-ordinating our input to the forthcoming Interop in May.

Preliminary schedule

Time	Presenter	Title	Link
	Wednesday 12th March 2014
09:30	Keith Noddle	Welcome	pdf
09:45	Mark Allen	State of the Project	pdf
10:30	Mark Allen	Multi-dimensional Data IVOA Priority Area	pdf
11:00	Break
11:30	Markus Demleitner	DC Census	notes
11:40	Nicolas Moreau	VAMDC : software / portal	pdf
12:00	Andre Schaaff	CDS and IVOA GWS News	pdf - SkyTouch demo
12:20	Massimo Ramella	WP4 Update	pptx
12:40	Giulia Iafrate / Marco Molinaro	IVOA Note on Edu-IG & SVN repo for tutorials	pdf
13:00	Lunch (on site)
14:00	Markus Demleitner	Datalink	notes
14:20	Mark Taylor	TOPCAT latest	pdf
14:50	Margarida Castro Neves	New tech in SPLAT: Obscore and Datalink	Echelle notes
15:20	Carlo Maria Zwolf	PDL Workflow
15:40	Francesco Cepparo	VESPA application for edu service publishing	pdf
16:00	Break

Attendees

Accommodation

Please book your hotel rooms. The Villa Bazzoni and Castello Basevi sites of the INAF-OATs are uphill the San Giusto Castle hill, 10-15 minutes walks from Trieste city center where most hotels and restaurants are located. We suggest to book your hotel at downtown sea level and get to the meeting site on foot or by bus. Suggested hotels are:

• Hotel Impero, near the train station, 30 min. walk from the Observatory, but near convenient bus stops (n. 1 or 15 & 16)
• Hotel Città di Parenzo, at S.Giusto hill base, 20 min. walk or bus n. 15 & 16
• Hotel Continentale, a little more expensive, 20 min. walk or bus 15-16

Other hotels and accommodation can be found at the Turismo FVG Accommodation page (choose Trieste and Karst as area and Trieste as locality, have a look at the map here below for suitable hotel locations). If you need further help or assistance feel free to contact Marco Molinaro ( molinaro [at] oats [dot] inaf [dot] it ).

Other information

Lunches on the 12th and 13th will be provided on site (buffet lunch). A Forum Dinner (free of cost for the participants) will take place the evening of Wednesday the 12th at the Buffet da Angelina. Please provide Marco Molinaro with dietary requests.
A small map and some directions to reach INAF-OATs can be found here. It contains some info on how to reach Trieste by plane and how to get from the airport to the city itself. Apart the mentioned APT 51 line and taxi you can try the Science-Bus shuttle service (about 20 € per person per ride). Below a Google Map with some more information on meeting location, hotels and buses. You may also find it useful the Trieste local transport web site, Trieste Trasporti, even if, unfortunately, it is in italian only.

Larger CoSADIE Tech Forum III map

-- KeithNoddle - 2014-01-08