Joint Meeting of the IAU Working Group on Astronomical Data and the IAU Task Group on  Data Centres and Networks:

Astronomical Data in the Next Decade.

Manchester IAU GA, Saturday 12th August 2000, 0900-1230

 


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0900 Introduction and Welcome
(Ernst Raimond, NFRA, chair, WG on Astronomical Data)

0910

The threat to our databases from WIPO
(Ray Norris, CSIRO ATNF, vice-chair, WGAD)

0935

The effect of WIPO on Data Centers
(Guenther Eichhorn, Project Scientist, ADS)

1000 International Virtual Observatories
(Francoise Genova, CDS Strasbourg, Chair, TG on data Centres and Networks)

[1030 Coffee]

1100

Digitization of Archival data
(Elizabeth Griffin, Chair, WG on Spectroscopic Data Archives)

1120

Sharing data on the WWW
(Marion Schmitz, Caltech, IPAC)

1140

Data center Interoperability
(Cynthia Cheung, NASA ADC)

1200

Beyond FITS
(Ed Shaya, NASA ADC)

1225 XML and Interoperability
(Francoise Genova, CDS Strasbourg, Chair, TG on data Centres and Networks)


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