IVOA Roadmap for 2023B

This outlines the roadmap for development activities by the various IVOA working and interest groups between the Nov 2023 and May 2024 Interops.

Applications WG

Data Access Layer WG

Primary:

ADQL

• 2.2 - PEG, INTERVAL support, MOC support, Array support, string functions, OFFSET

• PRec by Sydney

• User managed persistent tables
• Experiment with Open API spec for these changes

• RESPONSEFORMAT, MAXREC
• Allow services to reject unknown parameters
• Modernize required UCDs (UCD 1.0-> UCD 1+)
• WD by Sydney (PR pending validators and implementations)

• Proceed with renaming, expansion of supported data product types
• Miscellaneous changes
• WD by Sydney

• return extended metadata
• New transformation types
• WD by Sydney

LineTAP

• Client and server implementations progressing
• Raise PRec once implementations ready

• Work restarting
• New WD and perhaps PRec by Sydney

• Issue errata for minor issues already noted in github

• Can functions be reconciled between GAVO and OAJ?

Data Model WG

Grid and Web Services WG

Registry WG

Semantics WG

Data Curation Preservation IG

Education IG

Knowledge Discovery IG

Operations IG

Radio IG

Solar System IG

Theory IG

Time Domain IG

Standard and Processes