IVOA Data Model - Running Meetings

This page hosts the agenda and notes for the DM WG Running Meetings.

Next Meeting

Running Meeting #8 - Tuesday 16th September 2025 at 14:00 UTC

• Topics will be around MANGO, CAOM and ObsCore, and current IVOA RFCs

Agenda topics proposals

Feel free to add here the topics you would like to see discussed during the meetings

• (your discussion topic here)
• Spectrum Model: recent topics
  • Spectrum.Char.SpatialAxis.Coverage.Location (20240705)
    • https://github.com/ivoa-std/SpectrumDM/issues/13
    • Is there an action here to look into making this OPTIONAL in the model?
    • Do we need to add something to identify Theoretical?
    • Do we want to recommend how they should identify the dataset as "GAIA DR4"?
  • VOCLASS keyword value in spec does not match example
    • https://github.com/ivoa-std/SpectrumDM/issues/12
  • DATE-OBS keyword
    • https://github.com/ivoa-std/SpectrumDM/issues/8
• IVOA Note for FITS serializations: http://mail.ivoa.net/pipermail/dm/2024-June/006476.html
  • discussion started as question about lightcurve data model, but was concluding with a proposal to develop an IVOA Note with ‘preferred’ serializations for various products in FITS format.
  • This project would require review/assessment of the ‘big players’ currently in practice and define a recommended serialization. This would probably include a dictionary for FITS keywords for metadata at the Dataset/ObsCore level.
  • There are many in the community that are very keen on this project and, I think, would be a valuable resource.

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