Astronomy meets Semantic Web/Linked Data?

Hi all,

[Apologies for cross-posting but I'm not sure which list fits best.]

Ismael (cc'ed) is thinking about a possible masters topic in the 
intersection of his twin passions of Astronomy and Semantic Web/Linked 
Data.

It seems our cousins in Astronomy have lots of problems coping with 
large amounts of diverse data, and we have the typical integration 
problems across different observatories, as well as questions of how to 
make data public in a reusable manner, and so forth. So trying to apply 
SW/LD methodologies to the area of Astronomy would seem to make a lot of 
sense.

However, in Googling around, I could find very little if any work in 
this intersection, which I find a little puzzling. Hence I'm just 
looking for pointers to any works or groups or people or tools or 
resources or papers, etc., in the intersection of astronomy and SW/LD. 
It could be related to the use of RDF, ontologies, SPARQL, Linked Data, 
etc., for astronomical data.

(The only thing I'm currently aware of is the presence of some 
descriptions in knowledge-bases like DBpedia and Wikidata of well-known 
galaxies and other general-interest resources.)

We would be very grateful for any pointers along those lines.

Thanks in advance!
Aidan, Ismael

Received on Thursday, 31 March 2016 05:00:21 UTC