A huge amount of data is available for the minor planets of the Solar System (orbits, spectra, light-curves, pole orientation, shapes, albedo, colors, …), and most of them are contained in numerous and different databases around the world (AKARI, AstDyS, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), WISE/NEOWISE). Moreover, this situation will rapidly evolve due to an explosion of the number of available data, thanks to space telescopes (Gaia, Euclid, WFIRST, …) and ground-based surveys (PanSTARRS, LSST,…). Derived data product such as re-calibrated photometry or astrometry from archive data, exploiting the Gaia catalog, will also bring a new challenge.

It is clear that the future capacity of investigation of the Minor Planet population will strongly depend on the efficiency of the tools that should allow the simultaneous access to data of different nature and origin. A growing community of amateur astronomers, teachers, general public, and private firms developing asteroid exploration and mining, must also be taken into account as future users of such facilities.

The trend imposed by the European Union towards Open Data access, the growing need to link publications to the data on which they are based, the development of Virtual Observatory standards, the multiplicities of existing data services, are all facets of a same, complex situation.

To address these aspects and start a possible synergy, we decided to organize this workshop. The format will alternate presentations and round tables over the entire duration of the meeting. A road map for future collaborations and initiatives will be drafted.