Explicator


University of Glasgow

University of Leicester

EPSRC

Publications

Journals

2009 Alasdair J G Gray, Norman Gray, Christopher W Hall, and Iadh Ounis. Finding the right term: Retrieving and exploring semantic concepts in astronomical vocabularies. Information Processing and Management, 2009. In press. DOI:10.1016/j.ipm.2009.09.004.

Conference and Workshop Papers

2009 A.J.G. Gray, N. Gray, and I. Ounis. Vocabularies in the VO. In David Bohlender, Pat Dowler, and Daniel Durand, editors, Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems Conference (ADASS XVIII)Conference (ADASS XVIII, Quebec, Canada), volume 411, pages 179--182. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2009.
2009 A.J.G. Gray, N. Gray, and I. Ounis. Searching and exploring controlled vocabularies. In Proceedings of Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retreival Workshop (ESAIR 2009), Barcelona, Spain, February 2009. ACM. To appear.
2009 A.J.G. Gray, N. Gray, and I. Ounis. Can RDB2RDF tools feasibily expose large science archives for data integration? In The Semantic Web: Research and Applications (6th European Semantic Web Confernce, Heraklion, Greece), number 5554 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Verlag, 2009.
November 2008 A.J.G. Gray, N. Gray, and I. Ounis. Vocabularies in the VO. In proceedings of 18th Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems conference (ADASS XVIII), November 2008 (abstract, slides: pptx, pdf).
September 2008 A.J.G. Gray, N. Gray, and I. Ounis. Accessing Existing Distributed Science Archives As RDF Models. In proceedings of the UK All Hands Meeting (AHM), September 2008 (Extended abstract, slides: pptx, pdf).
July 2008 A.J.G. Gray, N. Gray, and I. Ounis. Finding data resources in a virtual observatory using SKOS vocabularies. In proceedings of the British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD), pages 189-192, July 2008 (Paper, Poster).

Miscellaneous

October 2009 A.J.G. Gray, N. Gray, F.V. Hessmann, and A. Preite Martinez (Eds). Vocabularies in the Virtual Observatory. IVOA Recommendation, November 2008 (Paper).
March 2007 N. Gray. UTypes and URIs. IVOA Note, 2007 (Paper).

Talks

October 2008 A.J.G. Gray. Semantic Access to Existing Archives. Presentation given at semantics session of IVOA InterOp Meeting, Baltimore (MD), USA (Slides: pptx, pdf)
May 2008 A.J.G. Gray. Exploring and Mapping Vocabularies. Presentation given at semantics session of IVOA InterOp Meeting, Trieste, Italy (Slides: pptx, pdf).
21 April 2008 N. Gray. Metadata and Semantics in the Virtual Observatory. Seminar given to the Information Retrieval Group, University of Glasgow (Slides: pdf).
February 2008 A.J.G. Gray. Explicator: Progress Update. Presentation given at the internal Terrier Workshop, University of Glasgow (Slides: ppt (2007), pdf).
October 2007 A.J.G. Gray. Controlled Vocabularies in Astronomy. Presentation given at the internal Terrier Workshop, University of Glasgow (Slides: ppt (2007), pdf).
September 2007 A.J.G. Gray. A VOEvent Vocabulary in a Semantic World. Presentation given at IVOA InterOp VOEvent session, Cambridge, UK (Slides).
September 2007 N. Gray. Vocabulary and Semantics in the Virtual Observatory. Presentation given at VOEvent BoF, ADASS, London, UK (Slides).
September 2007 N. Gray. Metadata and Semantics in the Virtual Observatory. Presentation given at the UK All Hands Meeting, Nottingham, UK (slides).
September 2007 A.J.G. Gray. The Explicator Project. Presentation given at the internal Terrier Workshop, University of Glasgow (Slides).