IVOA Applications
Chair:
Pierre Le SidanerVice Chair:
Adrian Damian
Applications Working Group Charter
The IVOA Applications Working Group is concerned primarily with the software tools that Astronomers use to access VO data and services for doing Astronomy.
The VO is enabling new ways of doing Astronomy. Interoperability between Astronomy data, services and software empowers astronomers to combine these for scientific discovery and analysis. VO Applications may take many forms such as GUI desktop applications, software libraries, web interfaces to services, or other innovative 'portals' to the VO. Legacy Astronomy software is becoming VO enabled and new and novel VO applications are being created. The IVOA Applications Working Group provides a means for VO Applications development and implementation to be closely linked to the standards development in the IVOA, and where necessary to propose and develop standards for VO Applications to interoperate.
The role of the Applications Working Group is to:
- Provide a forum for announcement and discussion of VO Applications
- Provide feedback to IVOA on the implementation of interoperability standards in VO applications
- Identify missing or desirable technical capabilities for VO applications
- Identify missing or desirable components in terms of scientific usability
- Propose and develop standards specific to VO Astronomy-user-Applications
Organisation
The Applications Working Group is overseen by a chair and deputy chair approved by the IVOA executive. The chairs organise the interop meeting sessions, and fulfil the normal responsibilities of a WG chair for publishing proposed recommendations.
Standards proposed for development within the Applications Working Group are to be considered within the wider context of the IVOA, and care should be taken to interface appropriately with other working groups. Development of Applications Working Group standards is ideally done by small teams. These teams are required to make a mission plan and to report regularly to the group.
Mailing lists
- apps@ivoa.net
- Applications Working Group discussion forum ( archive)
- apps-samp@ivoa.net
- SAMP mailing list ( archive)
Standards Development
License Details
Splinter Meetings
Interop Meetings
Applications sessions at Interop meeting will be organised for:
- General discussion, announcement and demonstration of VO applications.
- Technical development of interoperability standards for VO applications.
Sessions at previous and upcoming meetings, mostly with presentations attached, are listed here:
- Oct, 2015 - Sydney: InteropOct2015Applications
- June, 2015 - Sexten: InterOpJun2015Applications
- Oct, 2014 - Banff: InterOpOct2014Applications
- May, 2014 - Madrid: InterOpMay2014Applications
- Sep, 2013 - Waikoloa: InterOpSep2013Applications
- May, 2013 - Heidelberg: InterOpMay2013Applications
- Oct, 2012 - Sao Paulo: InterOpOct2012Applications
- May, 2012 - Urbana: InterOpMay2012Applications
- Oct, 2011 - Pune: InterOpOct2011Applications
- May, 2011 - Naples: InterOpMay2011Applications
- Dec, 2010 - Nara: InterOpDec2010Applications
- May, 2010 - Victoria: InterOpMay2010Applications
- Nov, 2009 - Garching: InterOpNov2009Applications
- May, 2009 - Strasbourg: InterOpMay2009Applications
- Oct, 2008 - Baltimore: InterOpOct2008Applications
- May, 2008 - Trieste: InterOpMay2008Applications
- Sept, 2007 - Cambridge: InterOpSep2007Applications
- May, 2007 - Beijing: InterOpMay2007Applications
- Sept, 2006 - Moscow: InterOpSept2006Applications
- May, 2006 - Victoria: InterOpMay2006Applications
- Oct, 2005 - Madrid: InterOpOct2005Applications
- May, 2005 - Kyoto: InterOpMay2005Applications
- May 2004 - Pune: InterOpMay2004Applications
Links
Applications (Please add new links by editing this page)
NVO Portal Services |
US National Virtual Observatory |
DataScope |
Broadcast query |
RVS |
Remote Visualization System |
TOPCAT |
Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables |
STILTS |
Command-line tools for table/VOTable manipulation |
CDS Aladin |
Image and Catalogue tool |
CASSIS |
A tool to visualize and analyse VO compliant spectra through SSAP and VAMDC protocol |
SPLAT |
Spectral Analysis Tool |
SAADA |
Auto-Configurable Database Generator |
Octet |
CVO Observation Catalog Exploration Tool |
Debian Astro |
VO Applications in the Debian Astro Pure Blend |
Autoplot |
Space Physics Data visualization tool |
Lagacy Applications (Please add new links by editing this page)
VOPlot - VOIndia |
A plotting software tool for visualizing astronomical data input in various tabular formats (such as VOTable, FITS etc) |
last maintained 2013 |
Treeview |
A viewer for hierarchical structures |
last maintained 2003 |
ESA VOSpec |
A tool to handle VO compliant spectra through SSAP |
last maintained 2016 |
China VO VOFliter |
VOTable Filter for OpenOffice Calc |
last maintained 2005 |
VOTable2XHTML |
XSLT Stylesheet for VOTable to HTML |
last maintained 2005 |
VOStat - VOIndia |
A tool for statistical analysis of astronomical data |
last maintained 2008 |
VOConvert - VOIndia |
A tool for converting files from one format to another (ASCII to VOTable; FITS to VOTable; VOTable to ASCII) |
last maintained 2006 |
VOCat - VOIndia |
A catalog data interface tool |
last maintained 2007 |
Bell Labs Mirage |
Multi-dimensional visualization of data from VOTable |
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VOSED |
A tool for building Spectral Energy distributions |
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VODesktop |
A resource-centered desktop client for VO: includes VOExplorer, Query and Task Runner, Astroscope, Myspace Browser |
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VisIVO |
A Visualisation Interface to the Virtual Observatory |
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A list of Visualization Tools |
VOTech Project DS6 survey |
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A Study On Existing Tools |
VOTech Project |
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NOAO NVO Portal |
NOAO Image Visualization Discovery Tool |
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VO-CLI |
Command-line Tools for the VO |
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AR Commandline |
Python commandline VO tools |
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Mosaic Service - VOIndia |
SDSS, 2MASS & HST FITS Image Mosaic Service |
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Pymorph Service - VOIndia |
Web service for automated galaxy structural parameter estimation using PYTHON |
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VOIndia Portal |
A portal with gadgets specially designed for Astronomers. Acts as a single point of entry for all VOIndia web services. |
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Libraries and Parsers
Protocols and Formats
Project Notes
Historical Interest
Pages
Documents
AIG report to IVOA Executive committee V0.1 |
( .doc) |
May 2004 |
Table 2 for AIG Report |
( .xls) |
May 2004 |
Querying heterogeneous datasets with Saada |
( .ppt) |
May 2006 |
Saada demo presented at BEIJING |
( .ppt) |
May 2007 |