IVOA Roadmap for the 2024B time span

This outlines the roadmap for development activities by the various IVOA Working and Interest Groups between the November 2024 (Malta) and June 2025 (Maryland) Interops.

Working Groups

Applications WG

• • note on usage of MiVOT

• HIPS
  • extension of usage for large catalogs (Healpix for catalogs)
  • extension for 3D HIPS

• MOC
  • Evolution on MOC usage versus s-region

Data Access Layer WG

Primary

• DALI

  • Polygon definition clarification

  • Add format: Parquet

  • PR-1.2 by June 2025

• TAP

  • WD-1.2 by June 2025 (mainly OpenAPI document (context: P3T))

  • Note about User managed persistent tables by June 2025

• ADQL

  • Erratum to remove boolean support from the BNF in ADQL-2.1

  • WD-2.2 by June 2025 (PEG grammar only)

• Conesearch

  • Modernize required UCDs (UCD 1.0-> UCD 1+)

  • RESPONSEFORMAT, MAXREC

  • Allow services to reject unknown parameters

  • WD-1.1 by June 2025 (PR pending validators and implementations)

• ObjObsSAP

  • Make its new name official on the IVOA-Docs page

  • Status about existing implementations

  • PR-1.0 by June 2025

• Datalink

  • Start WD-1.2

    • Get a solution to provide data across multiple locations

• DAP (Data Access Protocol)

  • SIAP-2.0 into DAP

  • Gregory D.-F. become the 2nd Editor with Pat D.

  • Proceed with renaming, expansion of supported data product types

  • Miscellaneous changes

  • WD-1.0 by Nov. 2025

• LineTAP

  • Species table with molecules and InCHI codes

  • Second implementation expected for 2025

  • PR once 2nd implementation available - 2025

• SODA

  • Return extended metadata

  • New transformation types

  • WD-1.1 by 2026

• ADQL

  • 2.3 - support INTERVAL, MOC and arrays, and review the optional status of some features

Data Model WG

Distributed Services Protocols WG

Registry WG

• CURRENT FOCUS
  • Work towards adoption of PR VOResource-1.2 (in RFC from 2024-11-17)
    • https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOResource12RFC
  • Investigate "Serving Simulated Data in VO Services/Collections"
    • cf https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpNov2024DAL/DAL_at_IRSA_Laity.pdf
    • Open question: reuse SSAP datasources for VODataService ?
  • Support data publishers towards filling coverage information as MOCs in publishing registries according to REC RegTAP -1.2
  • Participate in "alternative links" in DataLink effort with DAL WG to publish cloud-based data products cf https://github.com/ivoa-std/DataLink/issues/117. Also investigate with GWS WG if necessary to have such metadata in the Registry.
  • Prepare future RegTAP -1.3 to facilitate searching by product type served after VODataService -1.3

• STANDARDS IN PROGRESS
  • VODataService -1.3 (editor: MD) "A VOResource Schema Extension for Describing Collections and Services"
    • https://github.com/ivoa-std/VODataService
    • Status: WD https://ivoa.net/documents/VODataService/20241113/index.html
      • adding a productTypeServed element child to to DataService
      • working on mechanism to discover simulated data
  • DocRegExt -1.0 (editor: MD) "Educational Resources in the Virtual Observatory"
    • https://github.com/ivoa-std/DocRegExt
    • Status: WD https://ivoa.net/documents/DocRegExt/20230426/index.html
  • StandardsRegExt -1.1 (editor: RS) "A VOResource Schema Extension for Describing IVOA Standards"
    • https://github.com/ivoa-std/StandardsRegExt
    • Status: WD https://ivoa.net/documents/StandardsRegExt/20240125/index.html

• CONTINUOUS WORK
  • Implementation: Continue developing and maintaining the new PyVO Registry search and discovery API
  • Curation and Validation: setup a hackathon and project board to correct Registry issues at College Park Interop in June 2025
  • On-boarding Effort: Prepare and fund a workshop to discuss and disseminate best practices for registry publishing
  • Continue discussions on “Linking capabilities with tablesets” (cf https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/202404InteropRegistry/InterOpMay2024Reg_linking_capabilities_tablesets.pdf)
  • Continue involvement with DCP IG, esp. on the note “Data Origin and the VO” https://www.ivoa.net/documents/DataOrigin/

Semantics WG

Interest Groups

Data Curation Preservation IG

Education IG

High Energy IG

• ObsCore continuation - work to get a concrete recommendation to move this forward
• VOEvent - followup/continuation from the side-meeting we had in Malta; form a plan

Knowledge Discovery IG

Operations IG

Radio IG

Solar System IG

Time Domain IG

Committees

Standard and Processes

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