Astro-CC Technology Forum 1
Calendar Event date
7–9 October 2025
The first Technology Forum of the Astronomy Competence Center Pilot project will take place at the Basovizza Observing Station of the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Trieste from Tuesday 7 to Thursday 9 October 2025.
Event's website on Indico
The Technology Forum is meant to engage the community on the topics of technical standards and interoperability frameworks to enable FAIR data services in the domains of astronomy, heliospheric physics, planetary science, and astro-particle physics.
The target audience includes ESFRIs, other research infrastructures, and experts in the various interoperability frameworks.
The goal is to share technical expertise and best practices in the implementation of FAIR enabling technologies, and the use and development of open standards.
The format consists in topical sessions followed by practical hack-a-thon sessions for hands-on work in a collaborative mode.
Hack-a-thon Topics
The list below - of potential topics for discussion and/or hands-on work for the hack-a-thon sessions - is not meant to be exhaustive.
The time slots and rooms will be defined on the spot at the Tech Forum itself.
- EPN-TAP publication workflow
- FAIR AI & standards
- PyVO bug/report/triage
- Registry
- VOEvent & Registry
- IVOA doc processes & tools
- (OSTRAILS) FAIRness assessment
- (OPAL) ontologies/vocabularies
- relationships with other platforms (e.g. EOSC)
- Cone Search (2.0)
- Unicode in VOTable
Event's timetable
The venue is not (easily) reachable by public means of transportation, a shuttle service will be provided to get to the venue in the morning and get back to Trieste city center at the end of the working day (see timetable for details).