InterOpMay2004 Applications

Tuesday May 25, 2004

Preliminary Agenda

• Introductions
• Role of the Apps Interest Group
  • What is this group ifor?
  • Does the current charter make sense?
  • How should the group function?
  • How do we use the Twiki, mailing list?
• Existing VO applications (short presentations by developers)
  • What VO applications are out there that people can use in doing science?
    • SkyQuery, DIS, GAVO matcher, Spectrum/filter server, VOPlot, ...
  • What is currently under active development?
• What are the obstacles to developing VO applications?
  • How do existing VO standards help in the existing tools?
  • Where would it be most helpful to have additional standardized protocols/formats
• How can we share software? * Which libraries are currently being used? * Are there other libraries that can be distributed?
• Does the VO need any common infrastructure to support application development?
  • Standardized documentation
  • Configuration management
  • Testing
  • Portability of applications
  • SOAP and CGI

Materials and notes from the work group and plenary sessions