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

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

Semantics WG

Interest Groups

Data Curation Preservation IG

Education IG

High Energy IG

Knowledge Discovery IG

Operations IG

Radio IG

Solar System IG

Time Domain IG

Committees

Standard and Processes