VOEvent Workshop

April 13 and 14, Pasadena, California

Location: CACR, California Institute of Technology
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The closest ones to Caltech (walking distance) on that list are the Saga Motor Hotel and The Westway Inn on Colorado Boulevard.

Agenda:

• Define scope and reach a consensus on the semantic content of a discovery/followup message for an immediate sky event. This will be based on the existing draft at the IVOA Twiki.
• Consideration of serializing such a message into XML components, with re-use of existing schema where relevant.
• Discussions of the language by which clients could subscribe to a VOEvent server, with fine control over which messages are to be received.
• Discuassions of database and transport technologies for carrying VOEvent messages.
• Consideration of how existing systems could have a VOEvent capability added with maximal functionality and minimal effort.
• Finding volunteers to set up prototype systems.