IVOA Working Roadmap

Date : 31/09/2004

This is the Top Level IVOA "working roadmap", as distinct from the official Roadmap document on the public web page. This is the latest version emerging from Interoperability Workshop, Pune, India, Sept 25 - Oct 01 2004. It is divided into three sections - (i) hard goals up to the end of 2004, (ii) hard goals in 2005 (iii) General goals 2006 and onwards.

It is to be reviewed and revised by the Working Group chairs and then endorsed by the IVOA Executive. It would be good if WG chairs could add some more target dates, and also check out the question marks to take a final decision on what is a target or not.

ROADMAP NOW TO JANUARY

Events

• Oct 23-27 ADASS, Pasadena
• November Exec Telecon

Products

• UCD 1+ : ProposedRecc to Recc : issue RFC
• IVOA identifiers : ProposedRecc to Recc : issue RFC
• SSA V0.9 (DM+UML+XML)
• RegInterface 0.1
• VOResource 0.1
• SpaceTimeCoordinates 1.0 : WD to PropRecc to Recc (maybe January ?)
• VO SupportInterface 1.0 : WD0.2 to PropRecc to Recc (maybe January ?)
• ADQL 1.0 : by December ?
• SkyNode 1.0 : by December ?

ROADMAP 2005

Events

• Jan 2005 submit final Prague IAU proposal
• Jan 2005 Coordinated complex demos - San Diego, ESAC
• Jan 2005 Exec Meeting
• May 16-20 2005 Interop Kyoto
• Jul 2005 - Euro-VO tech workshop - Munich
• Autumn 2005 - ADASS + IVOA InterOp Madrid, Spain
• Jul 2005 compile Data Centre take-up statistics

Products

• SIA 1.1 update with DM new Recc (May)
• SSA 1.0 new Recc (May)
• SIA ADQL integration 2nd half of year
• RegInterface 1.0 (May)
• Some sort of Theory Services milestone (TBD)
• Characterisation, Quantity and Catalog(ue) Data Models
• various 1.x upgrades
• VOW-WS to 1.0 to 1.0 ?
• Single Sign On to 1.0 ?
• Async activities to 1.0 ?
• VOStore to 1.0 ?
• VOEvents 1.0 ??

LONG TERM GOALS

Technical Progress

• Work flow 1.0 (2006)
• Semantics/Ontology 1.0 (2006)
• Preservation 1.0 (2006)
• VOSpace 1.0
• Various 2.0s ....

Other stuff

• Aug 2006 - IAU Prague : VO Symposium
• Aug 2006 Coordinated complex events
• 2006,7,8 ...Data Centre take-up statistics
• Jan 2006 Reference Implementations
• Jul 2006 Implementations feedback
• Aug 2006 Compile science impact statistics