IVOA Roadmap for 2017B

This outlines the roadmap for development activities by the various IVOA working and interest groups in 2017/2018 between the Santiago and Victoria Interops.

Applications

Data Access Layer

Data Model

Grid and Web Services

Below is the 6-month roadmap for the Grid and Web Services Working Group after a successful and productive interop meeting in Santiago. The work related to UWS is the outcome of a resolution of a Registry WG issue of discovering services with multiple interfaces.

• VOSpace 2.1
  • To adopt new UWS sync and async types in interfaces for transfers
  • Make clear in the standard capabilities the use of VOSpace standardIDs
  • Add standard registry records (2.0 & 2.1)
  • Goal: RFC / TCG approval before 2018

• New UWS standard registry records for interface types (uws:sync, uws:async)

• Complete KDD/GWS Machine Learning experiment for code-to-data
  • more needed! (see below)

• Group Membership Service Working Draft

• Contributors needed for:
  • Interoperable code-to-data prototypes
  • Recommendation for Federated Authentication — An IVOA recommendation on how to integrate with federated authentication systems
  • Note giving examples on how to use the SecurityMethods described in SSO 2.1
  • Into the VO: Probabilistic Kernel Density Classification?

• If time permits:
  • Note on the proper pattern of making VO Service calls

Registry

Semantics

Data Curation & Preservation

Education

Knowledge Discovery

Operations

Theory

Time Domain

Standard and Processes

Science Priorities