IVOA Operations Interest Group

IVOA Operations Interest Group Charter

Goal of the IVOA Operations Interest Group

Coordinate and publicize activities of individuals, institutions and groups interested in facilitating robust operations of distributed astronomy applications, particularly those based upon implementations of IVOA protocols.

Specific responsibilities

1. Publicize existing forums and encourage new ones for monitoring services, notifications, discussions and questions regarding “real-time” operations of VO / distributed services.
2. Promote discussion within the IVOA on standards and practices that would increase the reliability of VO implementations.
3. Develop nominal implementation strategies for VO services as guides to best practice in the operational use of VO protocols.
4. Periodically provide reports to the IVOA executive and WGs summarizing availability, quality and usage statistics for distributed services and VO protocols.
5. During the IVOA standards review process, assess the validation capabilities that are now required as part of new standards.

Organisation

Interim Chair: Tom McGlynn

Mailing list

ops@ivoa.net

Operations Interest Group discussion forum (archive)

Operations sessions

• General discussion of operational issues of VO services
• Monitoring and validation reviews of VO services
• Development and deployment of validation services
• Discussion of operational best practice in VO service deployment and operations.

Links

VO Monitoring at the HEASARC

VO Validation at the HEASARC

Validators at VO/Paris

Cone search validator at NCSA

SIA Validator at NCSA

Documents

IVOAOpsCharter-v20150327.docx: Charter for the IVOA Operations Interest Group