Programme (Version of 23 June 1999)

Talks of 30 minutes duration should aim at a 20-minute 
presentation, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.


Wednesday 23 June 1999

14:00 - 14:15  Official opening, Daniel Egret (Director, 
               Strasbourg Observatory) and Fionn Murtagh (QUB)
14:15 - 15:30  "CORBA - distribution of data and processing
               tools", Christophe de Saint Rat (LORIA, Nancy)

15:30 - 15:50  Coffee

16:50 - 16:20  "Information discovery from semi-structured 
               sources - Application to astronomical literature",
               Josiane Mothe (IRIT, Toulouse), Taoufiq Dkaki
               (ULP, Strasbourg) and Daniel Egret (Strasbourg
               Observatory)
16:20 - 16:50  "The integration of astrophysics data and space
               science information: Astrobrowse and ISAIA",
               Bob Hanisch (STScI)


Workshop Dinner Wednesday evening, 20:00, at the restaurant 
Les Maronniers, in Stutzheim near Strasbourg, for a typical 
Alsatian "Tarte flambee".  Further details at the workshop. 



Thursday 24 June 1999

09:00 - 09:30  "Retrieval of structured and normalized XML 
               documents", Patrice Bonhomme (LORIA, Nancy)
09:30 - 10:00  "AML - astronomical markup language - software
               support tools and applications", Damien Guillaume
10:00 - 10:30  "Representation norms and dictionaries", Laurent
               Romary (LORIA, Nancy)
10:30 - 11:00  Coffee
11:00 - 11:30  "Information and data fusion: the ADS perspective",
               Alberto Accomazzi (CfA)
11:30 - 12:00  "ADS - user typologies", Alberto Accomazzi and 
               Guenther Eichhorn (CfA)


12:00 - 14:00  Lunch

14:00 - 14:30  "Data mining in astronomy", Francois Ochsenbein
               and Daniel Egret (Strasbourg Observatory)
14:30 - 15:00  "The hierarchical organization of information in 
               astronomy", Patricio Ortiz (Strasbourg Observatory)
15:00 - 15:30  Coffee
15:30 - 16:30  General discussion on "Information and/or 
               knowledge from astronomical archives and databases -
               from norms to mining"
  


Friday 25 June 1999

09:00 - 09:30  "The CDS information hub in the distributed 
               astronomical information system", Francoise 
               Genova (Strasbourg Observatory)
09:30 - 10:30  "Visualization in information retrieval and 
               knowledge discovery: achievements and new issues
               arising", Fionn Murtagh (QUB and Strasbourg 
               Observatory)

10:30 - 10:50  Coffee

10:50 - 12:00  Roundtable on Large Achives and Databases, 
               led by Rudi Albrecht (ST-ECF) and Marc Wenger
               (Strasbourg Observatory)


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A set of papers arising from the workshop will be reviewed, for
consideration for publication in Computer Physics Communications
(CPC), Elsevier.

Workshop web area: http://newb6.u-strasbg.fr/~ccma/ir-kd.html

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