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
Secondary
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ObjObsSAP
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Align existing impl. to the last PR
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Validator (Pierre le Sidaner)
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RFC by Spring Interop. 2026
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TAP
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Datalink
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SODA
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Return extended metadata
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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
Ongoing activity:
- Monitor VO health:
- Coordinate "weather reports" (service compliance)
- Address non-compliancy:
- Identify common/persistent errors
- Support/encourage service operators to improve service compliance
- Work with WGs on standards-related issues
- Validation:
- Ensure validators are available (IvoaValidatorsSummary)
- Encourage use of validators:
- on deployed services
- during standard development
- Communication:
- Provide forum for discussion of operational issues
- Host/invite "site reports"
- Encourage feedback communication between ops services and data providers
Specific focus:
- Work with DAL on standards issues:
- ConeSearch: UCD1+
- DALI: Sexagesimal markup standards
- SSA: A couple of Errata suggested
- Push for service metadata improvements:
- Operations in the cloud
- Security in VO services
- Encourage TAP validators developers to add checks for sql injection susceptibility
- Authentication as an operational necessity
- User agents used in VO services clients
Radio IG
Solar System IG
EPN-TAP 2.1
- progress in various domains (sort out heliophysics and body-fixed coordinate frames, start small bodies taxonomy)
workflows
- Installation tests, mock-up service
use cases
- Collect some in planetary science & heliophysics
- start generating more tutorials / education actions
Expose planetary content from telescope archives
EPN-TAP support in pyvo
Time Domain IG
Committees
Standard and Processes