IVOA Interoperability Meeting

14-19 May 2006: Victoria, Canada

VOQL Session

Timetable

Session 1 (May 16, 9:00-10:30) ADQL spec.

1. Current status of the ADQL WD (MariaNieto) 10 min
   • Where do we stand? What is left?
2. Survey of SQL compliance of DBMS (MasahiroTanaka) 20 min
3. Discussion topics (YujiSHIRASAKI & any) 30 min
   • Syntax of unit, date, time, timestamp, timezone, region, xmatch function
   • Default coordinate frame and unit of region expression
   • Table alias & qualified column
   • Replace DBMS dialect with the standard SQL
   • ...
4. Update of ADQL schema (YujiSHIRASAKI)30 min
   • Full ADQL schema
   • Core ADQL schema
5. Others

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Session 2 (May 16, 11:00-12:30) SkyNode spec.

1. Current status of SkyNode WD (MariaNieto) 10 min
   • Where do we stand? What is left?
2. Finalize xmatch debate (YujiSHIRASAKI, Any) 20 min
   • Which algorithm should be mandatory for xmatch skynode ? chi2 calculation vs distance based selection
3. Proposal of new interface (YujiSHIRASAKI) 10 min
   • performQuery(adqlCore)
   • performQuery(adql, votable)
   • performQueryAsync(adql) and related interfaces
4. content of a returned VOTable. (YujiSHIRASAKI) 10 min
5. Skynode classification. (YujiSHIRASAKI) 5 min
   • BASIC, FULL --> BASIC SN, FILE UPLOADABLE SN, ..., FULL SN
6. Table data model (YujiSHIRASAKI, PedroOsuna) 15 min
7. Metadata: information_schema like approache vs tables & columns interface. (YujiSHIRASAKI) 5 min
8. How to manage the ADQL versions (YujiSHIRASAKI) 5 min
9. Update of Road map

Session 3 (May 19, 11:00-12:30) Implementation

1. NVO
2. JVO
3. ESAC
4. CDS
5. AstroGrid ?
6. others?

Documents & schema

Presentations

Notes

Tools for SkyNode

Links

• InterOpMay2006
• InterOpOct2005VOQL
• InterOpMay2005VOQL
• InterOpSep2004VOQL
• InterOpMay2004VOQL
• InterOpOct2003VOQL
• InterOpMay2003VOQL