IVOA Roadmap for the 2025A time span

This outlines the roadmap for development activities by the various IVOA Working and Interest Groups between the June 2025 (UMD) and the November 2025 (Goerlitz) Interops.

Working Groups

Applications WG

• HATS Note
  • support finishing and publishing the Note

• VOTable
  • stimulate discussions around issues
  • support work towards REC1.6

• Miscellaneous:
  • Migrate HiPS and SAMP repos to Github
  • Initiate and support cleaning up VOTable related code in astropy
  • Organize telecoms as needed
  • PyVO maintenance and evolution

Data Access Layer WG

Primary

• Conesearch

  • WD-2.0 by Nov. 2025

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

  • RESPONSEFORMAT, MAXREC (referring to DALI)

  • Allow services to reject unknown parameters

• DALI

  • REC-1.2 by Nov. 2025

• ADQL

  • Erratum to remove boolean support from the BNF in ADQL-2.1

  • Discussions about support of MOC

  • WD-2.2 by Nov. 2025 (PEG grammar + some optional->mandatory features + arrays)

• DAP (Data Access Protocol)

  • Proceed with renaming, expansion of supported data product types

  • Miscellaneous changes

  • WD-1.0 by Nov. 2025

• SLAP

  • Import use cases from LineTAP

  • Change from SSLDM to the set of columns proposed in LineTAP

  • WD-2.0 by Nov. 2025

Secondary

• ObjObsSAP

  • Align existing impl. to the last PR

  • Validator (Pierre le Sidaner)

  • RFC by Spring Interop. 2026

• TAP

  • Finalize OpenAPI (along with VOSI)

  • Finalize Persistent upload tables

• Datalink

  • Start WD-1.2

    • Get a solution to provide data across multiple locations

• SODA

  • Return extended metadata

  • New transformation types

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