Charter

History

• started after Cambridge Interop 2003
• technical meetings in Garching, Strasbourg, Villa Franca
• First draft by 2005
• IVOA submission by spring 2007
• RFC for 3 documents :
  • The Model description: http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/CharacterisationDM.html
  • Utype list : http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/UtypeListCharacterisationDM.html
  • Implementations: http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/ImplementationCharacterisation.html

Results and Feedback

Data Model serialisation

Xml schema

• Characterisation XML schema version 1.11 Characterisation-v1.11.xsd

XML instance documents following the schema

• Xml documents for Characterisation draft version 1.0 http://alinda.u-strasbg.fr/Model/Characterisation/examples/

Implementations

• Aspid-SR
• Aladin
• Camea

Working Documents

• Characterisation data model current draft v1.0 (.pdf)

• Mireille Louys has produced a new version of the update of CharacterisationIvoadraft-v1.1.pdf, following on from discussion at the Astrospectroscopy and the VO meeting in Madrid (march 2007).

• Alberto Micol has produced a tutorial in order to help users to publish their data to the VO using Utypes from the Characterisation Model Characterisation Tutorial for publishing 2D images to the VO .
• 2005 Characterisation_Note_20051129.pdf: Characterization DM draft Note
• CharacterisationDraft-06May15.pdf: Characterisation Working Draft

• CharMandates.pdf: Mandatory keywords while using Characterisation DM

• update of CharacterisationIvoadraft-v1.1.pdf: Characterisation Model Working draft version 1.1

• ivoa_char_2d_image_tutorial_1.0.pdf: User's guide for Characterisation DM by Alberto Micol

• CharacterisationWDversion1.0.pdf: Characterisation Data Model
• CharacterisationImplementationv1.1.pdf: Implementations of the Characterisation DM v1.1

More documentation

• NotesOnPolarization

Interactions with other efforts

• IVOA Data Access Layer Access Protocols : SSA , SIA2, etc..
  
• Space Time Coordinates STC Coordinates representation
• Simulation Data Model