InterOpMay2004 VOTable

Participants

Timetable

Monday May 24, 2004

Review of the VOTable1.1 definitions, aiming at an IVOA Recommendation

Latest version to be discussed: http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaVOTable/VOTable-1.093.pdf

Thursday May 27, 2004

Evolution of VOTable in the future
A lot of dicussions occured in the mailing list about the scope and boundaries of VOTable. More prospective discussions about this future will take place, the actual agenda depending largely on the discussions in the other VO groups. Preliminary topics include:

• VOTable applications requirements
• Data models requirements
• Registries requirements

Tentative Agenda:

• 08:30 Summary of VOTable1 Results

• 08:40 Applications of VOTable
  Short presentations of some VOTable usages, with emphasis on strengths & weaknesses of VOTable:
  -- David Giaretta (STIL / TOPCAT)
  -- Thomas Boch (Cross-match)
  -- Tamas Budavari (SkyNode)
  -- Ajit Khembavi (VOPlot,...)
  

• 10:00 ----------- break ---------------------

• 10:30 Prospective Tour about some future evolutions of VOTable:
  -- VOTable and Quantities / VOResources (Francois Ochsenbein?)
  -- VOTable Enhancements (Pedro Osuna)
  -- VOList (Guy Rixon)

Materials and notes from the work group and plenary sessions