Astro-CC Technology Forum 2

19 oct. 2026, 13:00 → 22 oct. 2026, 16:30 Europe/Paris

Salle du Conseil (Observatoire de Paris)

The second Technology Forum of the Astronomy Competence Center Pilot project will take place at the Observatoire de Paris from Monday 19 to Thursday 22 October 2026.

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.

lun. 19 octobre

Introduction: Welcome, Logistics and Introduction

ALLEN_Astro-CC_TF2_intro.pdf

Session: Consolidation of the Agenda

ALLEN_EOSC.pdf

Session: Contributions

ALLEN_EOSC.pdf

1 Checking conformance to an evolving data standard

A FAIR case study with Gammapy FAIR data requires not only that files follow a community standard, but that conformance can be checked. Yet many domains rely on format conventions that are widely used but not systematically validated. In very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, the de-facto exchange format (GADF) is read and written by Gammapy, the open-source Python analysis library. As part of the OSCARS-funded FAIRGamma project, we integrated standard validation directly into Gammapy: each version of the standard is encoded as a machine-readable schema of required header keywords and table columns, against which any file can be checked, with every deviation reported. We discuss the design choices and what they mean for adding new formats such as VODF.

Orateur: Marie-Sophie Carrasco

2 Astro-COLIBRI: IVOA complient transient alert integration

Astro-COLIBRI is a comprehensive platform designed to maximize the discovery potential of follow-up observations of transient phenomena. It processes astronomical alerts from multiple global streams (e.g. GCN, TNS, CBAT, etc.) in real time, filtering them based on user-defined criteria and placing them in their multi-wavelength and multi-messenger context. Astro-COLIBRI integrates a public RESTful API, real-time databases, a cloud-based alert system, and user-friendly clients (a website and mobile apps for iOS and Android). To complement our existing VO compliant cone search service and the possibility to retrieve events in VOEvent format via our API, we have recently launched new, fully IVOA compliant real-time Kafka data streams, which enable fully automated follow-up observations of transient events. In this contribution, I will highlight the Astro-COLIBRI Kafka-broker and the transient event integration into the IVOA landscape.

Orateur: ilja Jaroschewski

3 FAIR vocabularies with OntoPortal

Orateur: Baptiste Cecconi

Cecconi-FAIR-vocabs-OntoPortal-ASTRO-CC-TF2-2026.pdf

4 VODataService PR

Orateur: Markus Demleitner

16:00 coffee/tea break

Splinter (salle du Conseil): FAIR assessment Hack-a-Thon

18:00 Welcome Drink

mar. 20 octobre

Splinter (Salle du Levant): Status of DocRepo developments

5 Development of the IVOA Document Repository

Ongoing work on the IVOA Document Repository, focusing on improvements to its structure, metadata management, and underlying infrastructure. Future developments include the integration of XML schemata and their relationships with the corresponding IVOA standards.

Orateur: Kalyani Pedamkar

Splinter (salle du Conseil): Enhanced Registry Capabilities

6 VODCAT

Orateur: Gilles Landais

VODcat2026.pdf

7 OSTRAILS SKG-IF

Orateur: Baptiste Cecconi

Cecconi-OSTRAILS-SKG-IF-ASTRO-CC-TF2-2026.pdf

8 ADS relationships (bibVO)

Orateur: Markus Delmeitner

slides.pdf

9 Data Citation and Tracking

Orateur: Baptiste Cecconi

Cecconi-OSTRAILS-DataCitation-ASTRO-CC-TF2-2026.pdf

10:30 coffee/tea break

Session: Astronomy and EOSC

ALLEN_EOSC.pdf

12:30 lunch break

Splinter (salle du Conseil): Relations with Planetary science ou Heliophysics ecosystems

10 Heliophysics and Planetary VOs

Orateur: Baptiste Cecconi

Cecconi-Helio-Astro-EOSC-ASTRO-CC-TF2-2026.pdf

11 Planetary Science in the VO

Orateur: Stéphane Erard

AstroCC_Erard_Oct26.pdf

12 Hosting VO services

Orateur: Pierre Le Sidaner

AstroCC-hosting.pdf

15:30 coffee/tea break

Session: Astronomy and EOSC

ALLEN_EOSC.pdf

team dinner

mer. 21 octobre

Session: ASTRO-CC results: our vision of a competence center

ALLEN_EOSC.pdf

10:30 coffee/tea break

Splinter (salle du Conseil): using AI in our services / Impact of AI on our services

13 Introduction: developments since the Trieste Tech Forum and discussion topics, illustrated with examples of impacts, challenges and issues

Orateur: André Schaff

ASTRO-CC-Paris-AI-Splinter.pdf

14 From Agentic Vibe Coding to Skills for Data

Orateur: Carlo Maria Zwölf

IA_SNO.pdf

15 VizieR Facing Increasing Bot Traffic and Data Scraping

Presented as a poster at Perth's ADASSS and IVOA

Orateur: Gilles Landais (CDS)

16 LaboBots School fedback

a complete summary will be available soon

Orateur: Renaud Savalle

link to the Labobots school

17 Bots and Agents in Astronomy: AI as an Assistant for Astronomers and a Source of Pressure on Astronomy Services ?

Orateur: Andre Schaaff

ASTRO-CC-Paris-AI-Splinter.pdf

18 AI agents can now query VESPA

Orateur: Stéphane Erard

VESPA-&-agents-ai-a-field-guide-for-colleagues.pdf

19 Open discussion

Orateur: All participants

12:30 lunch break

Session

ALLEN_EOSC.pdf

20 ConeSearch with OpenAPI

Orateur: Marco Molinaro

21 SCS2 feature set

Orateur: Markus Demleitner

15:30 coffee/tea break

Closing: Summary and Closing Remarks

jeu. 22 octobre

Splinter (Salle du Levant): Extended time for discussion

Splinter (salle du Conseil): Extended time for discussions

Splinter (Salle du Levant): Extended time for discussion

Splinter (salle du Conseil): Extended time for discussion