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*Latest Draft:* <span style="text-decoration: underline;">[[http://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOTable/][VOTable 1.4]]</span> (Proposed Recommendation)

<span style="background-color: transparent;">The main purpose of VOTable 1.4 is to support the new TIMESYS element.</span>

VOTable 1.4 is a backward-compatible revision whose primary purpose is to support a new TIMESYS element. For more information on TIMESYS, see this note: [[http://www.ivoa.net/documents/Notes/TimeSys/index.html][A Proposal for a TIMESYS Element in VOTable]]

<span style="background-color: transparent;">The other main differences between version 1.4 of VOTable and the preceding version 1.3 are:</span>
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&bull; Applying erratum VOTable 1.3-1, un-deprecating COOSYS.<br />&bull; Applying erratum VOTable 1.3-2, permitting F0 in precision.<br />&bull; Applying erratum VOTable 1.3-3, clarifying the meaning of arraysize="1".
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Changes made during the Working Draft phase are noted here: <span style="color: blue; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline;">[[VOTable14WorkingDraftNotes][VOTable 1.4 Working Draft Notes]]</span>

__Update (2019-06-11)__: New PR Document uploaded to correct document date and status.

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The VOTableInfo page contains a list of proposed changes that, during the WD phase, were agreed to defer to a future version. When the document maintenance is transitioned to !GitHub, those item will be converted to !GitHub issues.
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---++ Reference Interoperable Implementations

   * [[https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/nph-aladin.pl?frame=downloading#Proto][AladinProto]]: TIMESYS and COOSYS full support
   * DaCHS 1.2.6 (beta) produces TIMESYS. Deployed services serving time series with TIMESYS include ivo://org.gavo.dc/gaia/q2/dr2epochflux, ivo://org.gavo.dc/bgds/l/ssa, and ivo://org.gavo.dc/k2c9vst/q/ssa, as well as the datalink-linked datasets from the gaia.dr2epochflux, bgds.ssa_time_series, and k2c9vst.timeseries tables in http://dc.g-vo.org/tap
   * [[http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/][STIL]] v3.3-3/[[http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/][STILTS]] v3.1-6/[[http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/][TOPCAT]] v4.6-3 support VOTable 1.4 (PR-VOTable-1.4-20190604): COOSYS and TIMESYS elements are ingested and the relevant properties are attached to columns in the internal table data model, and can be seen in the library/application [[http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/sun253/ColumnInfoWindow.html][column metadata]]. The same attributes are written out, though currently for TIMESYS only if output VOTable version is set to "1.4" ( =-Dvotable.version=1.4=). These applications don't do much with the information beyond making it visible, though (experimental) [[http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/sun253/TimePlotWindow.html][time plots]] use the =timeorigin= and (in most cases) time units to offset temporal coordinates.

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---++ Implementations Validators

   * [[http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/sun256/votlint.html][votlint]] from STILTS v3.1-6 validates VOTable 1.4, corresponding to PR-VOTable-1.4-20190604.

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---++ Comments Prior to Official RFC Period

Closed on 2019-06-04 with no comments -- IVOA.TomDonaldson - 2019-06-04

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<span style="color: #630000; font-size: 18.850000381469727px; background-color: #f6f6f6;">Comments from the IVOA Community during RFC/TCG review period: 2019-06-05 - 2019-07-19</span>

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   * Comment by ThomasBoch : <strong>request for clarification about COOSYS allowed system values<br /></strong>Among the list of possible values for the system attribute of the COOSYS element, two of them "ecl_FK4" and "ecl_FK5" are quite obscure to me and it would make life simpler for implementors if there was a definition attached to each of these values. The XML schema also mentions 3 other possible values: "xy", "barycentric" and "geo_app" ...

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<span style="color: #630000; font-size: 18.850000381469727px; background-color: #f6f6f6;">Comments from TCG member during the RFC/TCG Review Period: 2019-06-05 - 2019-07-19</span>

WG chairs or vice chairs must read the Document, provide comments if any (including on topics not directly linked to the Group matters) or indicate that they have no comment.

IG chairs or vice chairs are also encouraged to do the same, althought their inputs are not compulsory.

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---+++ [[IvoaApplications][Applications Working Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaDAL][Data Access Layer Working Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaDataModel][Data Model Working Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaGridAndWebServices][Grid & Web Services Working Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaResReg][Registry Working Group]]

Approved from Registry standpoint. I don't have the background to comment deeply on TIMESYS details, but it looks straightforward to implement if needed and the parallel with COOSYS fits nicely. A note on the arraysize=1 clarification: since we're no longer working in the confines of smallest possible text changes for errata, there might be places elsewhere in the text where arraysize is discussed where it would be helpful to mention. Not strictly necessary to address this, just a thought. -- IVOA.TheresaDower - 2019-06-04
---+++ [[IvoaSemantics][Semantics Working Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaDCP][Data Curation & Preservation Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaTheory][Education Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaKDD][Knowledge Discovery Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaSS][Solar System Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaTheory][Theory Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaVOEvent][Time Domain Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaOps][Operations]]
Looks good to go from my point of view.   -- IVOA.MarkTaylor - 2019-06-26

---+++ [[IvoaStdsDocsProc][Standards and Processes Committee]]

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Topic revision: r14 - 2019-06-26 - MarkTaylor
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