IVOA Roadmap for 2023A

This outlines the roadmap for development activities by the various IVOA working and interest groups between the May 2023 and Nov 2023 Interops.

Applications WG

Data Access Layer WG

Primary:
ADQL

• 2.1 RFC - complete and get to REC
• 2.2 - PEG, INTERVAL support, MOC support, Array support, string functions, OFFSET

• RFC open - complete and get to REC

• PRec + RFC mid 2023

• User managed persistent tables
• Experiment with Open API spec for these changes

• RESPONSEFORMAT, MAXREC
• Allow services to reject unknown parameters
• Modernize required UCDs (UCD 1.0-> UCD 1+)
• PRec by next interop

• Proceed with renaming, expansion of supported data product types
• Miscellaneous changes
• Moving to WD status

• return extended metadata
• New transformation types
• Moving to WD status

• Client and server implementations progressing
• Raise PRec once implementations ready

• Examine renaming to avoid radio confusion
• Restart effort to complete the standard and get to PRec

• Issue errata for minor issues already noted in github

• Can functions be reconciled between GAVO and OAJ?

• Continuing work towards mature WD status

Data Model WG

Grid and Web Services WG

Registry WG

Semantics WG

Data Curation Preservation IG

Education IG

Knowledge Discovery IG

Operations IG

Radio IG

• Pushing ObsCore Radio data extension (inteferometry/visibility and single dish) to PR status by solving issues and pushing implementations
• Update implementation review note with  recent progress and additional implementations (projects such as NRAO, GBT, SKA, IRAM, SpanifhVO, etc...)
• Work on a full draft for the Pulsar and FRB Radio Data Discovery and Access note
• Continue work on integhrating radio services and software in plaforms (python notebooks and whatever) for finding and downloading radio data through the VO.

Solar System IG

• Continue development on Observation Facility Codes
• Get some prototype planetary reference frames incorporated into the Reference Frames vocabulary
  • This tutorial explains how the Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) software defines (and uses) reference frames and coordinate systems: NAIF Frames and Coordinate Systems Tutorial
  • The list of IAU defined body-fixed frames is included in the NAIF software documentation on frames, as an appendix: direct link to "frames.html" second appendix
• Ensure convergence of the EPN-TAP dataproduct_type with the Data Product Type vocabulary.
• Support PDS/SBN efforts to exercise EPN-TAP and planetary additions to related protocols by implementing IVOA services on small data sets from several different planetary disciplines.

Theory IG

Time Domain IG

Standard and Processes