IVOA Roadmap for 2024A

This outlines the roadmap for development activities by the various IVOA working and interest groups between the May and November 2024 Interops.

Applications WG

Standards and Related:

• Get VOTable 1.5 approved and start planning for 1.6 (support for Parquet)
• Evolution of MOC adding frequency axis to MOC
• Follow integration of VO-Standards and comon applications into science platform
• Apps support for P3T prototyping
• Migrate HiPS and SAMP documents to Github
• Clean up applications WG wiki pages.

Python

• Support open development in PyVO (release 1.6)
• Continue the support for MIVOT integration in PyVO
• Maintenance, new features? Organize meetings with developers, mainteners, users
• Maintain votable parsing in Astropy core (add support for VOTable 1.5)

Data Access Layer WG

Primary

• TAP

  • 1.2 - User managed persistent tables + Experiment with Open API spec (context: P3T)

• DALI

  • Polygon definition clarification

  • PR-1.2 by Malta

• ADQL

  • WD-2.2 by Malta (PEG grammar only)

• SODA

  • return extended metadata

  • New transformation types

  • WD-1.1 by Malta

• SIA

  • Issue errata for minor issues already noted in GitHub

• SSA

  • Issue errata for minor issues already noted in GitHub

• 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 Malta

• User Defined Functions catalogue

  • Ready to be endorsed

Secondary

• Conesearch

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

  • RESPONSEFORMAT, MAXREC

  • Allow services to reject unknown parameters (work to be covered by P3T)

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

• LineTAP

  • Work to continue

  • Status about client and server implementations

  • Raise PRec once implementations ready

• ObjObsSAP

  • Work to continue

  • WD-1.0 by Malta

• ADQL

  • 2.3 - INTERVAL support, MOC support, Array support, string functions, OFFSET

Data Model WG

Grid and Web Services WG

Registry WG

Semantics WG

Data Curation Preservation IG

Education IG

Knowledge Discovery IG

Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models in the VO:
- Coordinating an IVOA, inter-group "tiger team" that will scope the current and future potential impact of AI on VO.
- Investigating best practices of building AI-ready datasets for developing Astronomical LLM and foundation models.
- Collecting use cases and requirements for the integration of LLMs in the VO context.

ML-proofing existing and science platforms:
- Investigating where existing astronomy science platforms conpatible with ML methods.
- Investigate whether science platforms can access tabular and non-tabular data through VO interfaces.
- Coordinating science platforms for bringing ML/AI methods to data.

Operations IG

Radio IG

Solar System IG

The next roadblock to knock down for planetary data inside and outside of IVOA: Standard Vocabularies; Standard Vocabularies; Standard Vocabularies...

The goal should be to coordinate with the related activities in planetary archives, repositories, and journals to avoid having to deal with the translation and "cross-walk" problems of other disciplines by establishing permanent reference services now.

• Observatory Facilities
• Planetary Object Types
• Product Types
• Reference Frames

Because planetary data in particular, and solar system more generally, has an abundance of both small data sets and unique, effectively unreproducable data sets (from remote sensing missions) that take half a career or longer to obtain, citation is a high priority for the community. The chair will be actively participating in:

• DOI Note for IVOA
• Discussions with authors and journal publishers regarding best practices for citing data.

Time Domain IG

Standard and Processes

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