VOEvent ontology use cases

[Elizabeth Auden]

> Do we have any use cases for a voevent ontology?

The one I was thinking of at the VOTech DS5 meeting in Leicester this past 
February is to first build a plausible VOEvent ontology and then construct 
a software agent that could be released against a set of test datasets to 
see if the ontology can be used to identify events and chuck them into a 
catalogue. The specific case I would like to implement will look at a 
month's worth of TRACE or SOHO CDS / MDI / EIT and see if the ontology / 
agent combination can identify solar flares.

Before anyone asks, no, at the moment I don't have a clue how to do this. 
:) However, the Gene Ontology group seems to be using their ontology to do a 
similar (ish) kind of thing - gene samples can be analyzed in conjunction 
with the Gene Ontology to see what components, functions, and larger 
gene-groups any given gene in the sample has. If anyone is interested in 
reading more about this, there are many links to research, papers, and 
software from http://www.geneontology.org.

cheers,
Elizabeth