ESO Experts Workshop:
Next Generation Archive Facilities
May 21-22, 1996 - Programme


The workshop takes place in the Council Room, ESO Garching, May 21-22, 1996. Four sessions organized during two days. To obtain more information about this workshop's rationale please refer to the ESO Experts Workshop Overview.

Tuesday, May 21


Session 1

08.30 Registration
09.00 Welcome DG R. Giacconi
09.05- 10.30 Next Generation Instrumental Capabilities & Data Management Requirements
  • VLT Instruments
  • HST Instruments
D. Baade
J. Walsh
10.30 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Advances in storage and data communication technologies
  • Media & Exchange devices
  • Formats & standards
  • Perspective in telecommunication
B. Pirenne
Lunch

Session 2

14.00-15.30 Next generation catalogues
  • Astrometry
  • Photometry and surveys
F. Ochsenbein
15.30 Coffee break
16.00-17.30 Correlating meta-data
  • Catalogues, mission logs and publications
D. Egret

Wednesday, May 22


Session 3

09.00-10.30 Archive User interfaces
  • Combining data and catalogues
  • The Java advantage
D. Durand
10.30 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Correlating archive data
  • Survey mode processing
  • VLT, HST and other missions
  • Knowledge extraction
M. Albrecht
Lunch

Session 4

14.00-15.30 Data warehouse functions
  • Engineering monitoring
  • Pattern searching
L. Hurt
15.30 Coffee break
16.00-17.30 Conclusions
  • Capabilities of the VLT Archive Facility

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