IVOA Member Organizations A representative from each member organization participates in quarterly Executive Committee meetings, usually held virtually or hybrid during...
DocRegExt Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments DocRegExt is a VOResource extension for registering documents useful for teaching and learning the Virtual...
Object Observability Simple Access Protocol Note: This protocol is formerly known as Object Visibility Simple Access Protocol (ObjVisSAP). Current status: GitHub...
DALI 1.2 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments The changes in DALI 1.2 are primarily the inclusion of additional xtypes that can be used to add extra type...
DAL Registry Joint Session at the IVOA Nov 2025 Interoperability Meeting back to main programme page Session Schedule DAL Registry Joint Session: Friday...
IVOA Data Access Layer Running Meetings This page hosts the agenda and notes for the DAL WG Running Meetings. Agenda topics proposals Feel free to add here the...
IVOA Data Model Running Meetings This page hosts the agenda and notes for the DM WG Running Meetings. Next Meeting Running Meeting #9 Fruday 31st October...
Applications Working Group : Nov 2025 back to main programme page Schedule DRAFT Applications Session 1: November 14, 2025 11:00 12:30 live notes (available...
IVOA Roadmap for the 2025A time span This outlines the roadmap for development activities by the various IVOA Working and Interest Groups between the June 2025 (UMD...
IVOA Technical Coordination Group This Committee is formed by the Chairs of the Working and Interest Groups and includes the IVOA chairs and vice chairs. TCG Charter...
IVOA Executive Reports Minutes The IVOA have ~tri monthly telecons and also meets during major international meetings. The contact people for projects that...
StandardsRegExt 1.1 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments StandardsRegExt is a Registry extension describing IVOA documents; it has been in use for a long...
IVOA Data Access Layer Rationale The task of the Data Access Layer (DAL) Working Group is to define and formulate VO standards for remote data access. Client data...
MANGO 1.0: Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments In the VO world, there is a paradox: source data, which represent the basic building blocks of astronomers...
Existing IVOA Education Resources and Tutorials VO tutorials Tutorials in English Graduate level Tutorials for SIMBAD, VizieR, Aladin National Virtual...
Parquet in IVOA VOParquet Note The Note, published on 16 Jan 2025, describes use of VOTable within Parquet files to associate rich semantic (VOTable) metadata with...
VOEvent2.1 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments Summary VOEvent 2.1 defines the content and meaning of a standard information packet for representing, transmitting...
Astronomical Data Query Language The Astronomical Data Query Language (ADQL) is the language used by the IVOA to represent astronomy queries posted to VO services...
DSP Running Meeting 15/07/2025 Purpose Review and discuss the current draft of the AuthVO specification, with a focus on OAuth2 / OIDC integration, error handling...
High Energy Interest Group (HEIG) Last updated 29May25 JEvans (Added May mtg notes) High Energy Interest group accepted by IVOA Executive committee November...
Request for Modification (RFM) for the UCD vocabulary towards UCDList v1.7 This page summarises the steps for Modifications and Updates proposed in the List Maintenance...
Request for Modification (RFM) for the UCD vocabulary towards UCDList v1.6 This page summarises the steps for Modifications and Updates proposed in the List Maintenance...
Ops DSP Session at the June 2025 Interop, College Park (Maryland, US) Thursday June 5 2025 11:00 12:30, Room: room 1309 Back to main progamme page: InterOpJune...
IVOA Operations Interest Group Overview Organisation Chair: Steve Groom Vice Chair: Tamara Civera Goal of the IVOA Operations Interest Group Coordinate...