VOTable 1.5 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments VOTable is a standard for the interchange of data represented as a set of tables, and includes both table...
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...
Program Prep List IVOA meeting (May 20 24, 2024) Meeting web link: https://rds.org.au/events/ivoa 2024/ Program link: https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay...
Web SAMP and HTTPS Problem The SAMP Web Profile allows web applications to talk to other SAMP clients, communicating with the Hub using an XMLHttpRequest to a well...
Protocol Transitioning Tiger Team (P3T) The Protocol Transitioning Tiger Team was formed in Tucson at the Interop meeting in Nov 2023. The aim is to address the question...
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...
Vocabulary Enhancement Proposals is how IVOA Vocabularies are evolved as specified in in the VO 2.0. To add a VEP, please write a message to semantics #64;ivoa.net...
IVOA Semantics Working Group The Semantics Working Group ( Charter) superseded the UCD Working Group in 2006 as it was realised semantic resources beyond UCDs...
Summary page for VEP dedicated to UCD updates Note : VEPs for UCD are proposed as an extension of Vocabulary Extension Proposals, with a restricted usage to...
Request for Modification (RFM) for the UCD vocabulary towards UCDList v1.5 This page summarises the steps for Modifications and Updates proposed in the List Maintenance...
UCD List Maintenance status This page follows the maintenance steps applied to the IVOA UCDlist vocabulary. The last version of the terms is published on the IVOA...
TCG Meeting (online) Mar 07 2024 @ 20:00 UTC Attendees : Jesus Salgado, Renaud Savalle, Sara Bertocco, Anne Raugh, Raffaele D`Abrusco, Adrian Damian, Gilles...
RegTAP 1.2 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments RegTAP, formally known as the IVOA Registry Relational Schema, is the standard way for clients to query the...
SODA1.0 Next page. Previous material before May 2020 (most of it common with DAP) Old `DAL future` page : https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/DALFuture...
Common SIAP 2.0 Next and DAP1.0 page. Previous material before May 2020 (most of it common with SODA Next) Old `DAL future` page : https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki...
DataLink 1.1 Next This topic collects proposals for modifications of the DataLink 1.1 specification in order to improve the next revision of the specification. The...
IVOA Data Access Layer Contents Rationale The task of the DAL working group is to define and formulate VO standards for remote data access. Client data analysis...
Back to: DAL Data Linking DataLink 1.1 Next page to gather feedback on current REC to be used for next minor/major version. DataLink 1.0 Next page to gather feedback...
DataLink 1.0 Next This topic collects proposals for modifications of the DataLink 1.0 specification in order to improve the next revision of the specification. Errata...
ObsCore for radio data: project also discussed on github Some considerations: Authors: A. Zanichelli, V. Galluzzi, M. Molinaro (INAF) Here below we report some...
IVOA Roadmap for 2023B This outlines the roadmap for development activities by the various IVOA working and interest groups between the Nov 2023 and May 2024 Interops...
TCG Running List 2024 Running list of topics that should be reviewed as they come up so we don`t forget. TCG Contributor (Name) Date Topic Action Brief...
High Energy Interest Group (HEIG) Page Our first meeting at the May 2023 Interop in Bologna led to a informal group of High Energy project coordinating on topics related...
IVOA Executive Reports Minutes The IVOA have ~tri monthly telecons and also meets during major international meetings. The contact persons for the projects...
IVOA IAU Liaison Committee Purpose The International Astronomical Union (IAU) promotes research, communication, education and development in astronomy, through...
IVOA Resource Registry Working Group Home Contents Current Activity TAP Service Operators: Please take up Discovering Data Collections so your tables can...
Registry Session: Nov 2023 back to main programme page Schedule Saturday November 11, 202 @14:00 MST: Steward Room N210 and online (Session 7) Speaker...
Radio Astronomy Interest Group Fifth Virtual Meeting 2023, April 4th via zoom : https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/97596407249?pwd YlQ3eUVqdC91NVpaQlRSQjdST1oxdz09 Telecon...
IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM116) Thursday, 9 November 2023 @ 17:30 to 19:00 Mountain Standard Time (HYBRID) UTC: 12:30 to 2:00 UTC Friday, Nov. 10 Contents...
GWS Session at the Nov 2023 Interop, Tucson, AZ, USA Friday November 10, 2023 16:00 17:30, Room: Steward (N 210) See InterOpNov2023 for the complete programme. Special...
Word Lists in EPN TAP This is a list of EPN TAP columns that would profit from or already have well defined lists of concept or entity names. The hope is that we...
SSA v1.1 Erratum 3: Correct XMLNS in examples Author: James Dempsey Date last changed: 2023 12 04 Date accepted: Github Issue: Issue #2 Rationale SSAP used to require...
Data Model Working Group : November 2023, Tucson, AZ. back to main programme page Schedule DataModel Session 1: Saturday Nov 11 2023 @ 9:00 10:30 (Session #5)...
SSA v1.1 Erratum 5 Clarify utype prefixing Author: James Dempsey Date last changed: 2023 12 04 Date accepted: Github Issue: Issue #9 Rationale The example responses...
SSA 1.1 Errata Page status report for Errata related to the SSA 1.1 specification. Accepted Errata SSA 1.1 Erratum 1: Base URL trailing separator clarification...
Programme for November 2023 Interop in Tucson, Arizona (USA) IVOA Northern Fall 2023 Interoperability Meeting information: page page Logistics details...
Solar System Interest Group This interest group is chaired by AnneRaugh (appointed 2021 06). Current Activities EpnTapWordLists Charter The Solar System...
Solar System Interest Group Session at the Nov 2023 Interop, Tucson, AZ, USA Friday November 10, 2023, Room: Steward (N 204) 14:00 15:40 MST (local time) 21:00...
The Registry is the collection of metadata on the services in the Virtual Observatory. See IvoaResReg for more information about why you want your service in. Registering...
DataLink 1.1 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments Introduction DataLink describes the linking of data discovery metadata to access to the data itself, further...
Obscore 1.1 Erratum 4: Pin VODataService citation for data rights to VODataService 1.1 Author: Markus Demleitner Date last changed: 2023 10 10 Date accepted:...
DAL Parameters in 3 factor semantics are uniquely defined by the triple of name, UCD , and unit. Data services are free to support as many such parameters as is appropriate...
Schedule TDIG Session 8: Saturday Nov 11 2023 @ 16:00 17:30 SpeakerTitleMaterialsTime Robert Nikutta How science platforms can help bring together time domainastronomy...
Radio astronomy Interest Group Charter: The group shall define requirements for the representation of radio astronomy data in the VO through: development of...
Ops Session at the Nov 2023 Interop, Tucson, AZ, USA Sunday November 12 2023 9:00 10:30, Room: Steward (N 210) See InterOpNov2023 for the complete programme. Speaker...
VOUnit 1.1 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments VOUnit proposes a recommended syntax for writing the string representation of unit labels. Latest version...
Spectrum 1.2 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments Introduction The Spectrum Data Model describes the structure of spectrophotometric datasets with spectral...
Applications Working Group : November 2023, Online back to main programme page Schedule Applications Session 1: Saturday Nov 11 2023 @ 14:00 15:30 (Session...
ADQL 2.1 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments ADQL defines an SQL like grammar adapted for astronomical purpose. It is especially used by the TAP (Table...
IVOA Web Doc Hackathon at the Nov 2023 Interop, Tucson, AZ, USA Saturday November 11 2023 11:00 12:30, Room: Steward (N 210) This session invites participants to work...
Publishing Data into the VO 0. Introduction The purpose of this page is to provide practical information about how to publish your data holdings into the VO. The...
Data Curation Preservation Working Group : November 2023, Online back to main programme page Zoom link: https://noirlab edu.zoom.us/j/93219328605?pwd S0RRN3Fnc21INkp6RG9vWG5NbT...
Semantics Session at the Nov 2023 Interop, Tucson, AZ, USA Friday November 10, 2023, Room: Steward (N 204) See InterOpNov2023 for the complete programme. Schedule...
May 2023 IVOA Interop Meeting Schedule (Sunday 7) Monday 8 Friday 12, May 2023Congress Center, CNR Research Area, Bologna, Italy ( details) Meeting web page...
Simple Cone Search This Simple Cone Search (ConeSearch) defines a simple query protocol for retrieving records from a catalog of astronomical sources. The query...
Set ALLOWTOPICRENAME TWikiAdminGroup Radio Astronomy Interest Group ( Jointly organised with Data Model Working Group) Sixth Virtual Running Meeting 2023,...
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...
A proposal for vector math in ADQL With tables containing massive amounts of vectors becoming common (e.g., the collections of low resolution spectra within Gaia DR...
IVOA Roadmap for 2023A This outlines the roadmap for development activities by the various IVOA working and interest groups between the May 2023 and Nov 2023 Interops...
IVOA Applications Chair: Pierre Le SidanerVice Chair: Adrian Damian Applications Working Group Charter The IVOA Applications Working Group is concerned primarily...
IVOA Standing Committee on Science Priorities (CSP) These pages are being updated by the current CSP. Terms of Reference (2021 ): The IVOA recognizes that sustaining...
Program Prep List IVOA meeting (Nov 10 12, 2023) Meeting web link https://indico.ict.inaf.it/e/ivoa/interop nov 2023 (Live sign up!!) Program link: InterOpNov...
IVOA Validation Capabilities This page provides a comprehensive summary of the validation capabilities associated with published IVOA standards. Validators include...
ADQL function names The ADQL standard itself does not impose any restrictions on the names that may be used for user defined functions. To avoid name collisions when...
IVOA Theory Update 2023 09 20 These pages are quite out of date! They will be updated and edited over the next couple of months with new activity from the Theory...
IVOA Data Curation and Preservation `Share best practices and engage IVOA member projects in the long term curation and preservation of astronomical data` Chair...
Spectrum Data Model: version 1.2 Goals This update is to satisfy requested enhancements to the v1.1 model document. Presentations by Vandana Desai Nov....
SODA 1.0 Errata This page collects errata for SODA 1.0 specification. ! (SODA 1.0 next features page is available here). Accepted Errata SODA 1.0 Erratum...
Computing Services API Cross science platforms execution project The GWS WG is going to start a project to identify the main changes and new standards to allow remote...
Jumps: RegistryGuide :: IvoaResReg :: mail archive :: :: May 2009 Interop, an action was taken up to develop a guide for registry providers that records Working Group...
IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM111) Tuesday, 21 March 2023 @ 20:00 UT Contents Logistics Agenda Roll call and agenda Regrets: Review and Approval...
The TCG companion This page is intended as an introduction and reference for chairs and vice chairs of IVOA Working Groups (and to some degree Interest Groups, too...
IVOA Roadmap for 2022B This outlines the roadmap for development activities by the various IVOA working and interest groups between the Oct 2022 and May 2023 Interops...
IVOA Operations Interest Group Overview Organisation Chair: Steve Groom Vice Chair: Tamara Civera Goal of the IVOA Operations Interest Group Coordinate...
TCG Interop Meeting (F2F) Sun, May 07 2023 @ 9:30am Local Time (CEST / UTC 2) Congress Center, CNR Research Area, Bologna, Italy (venue details) Meeting...
TAP 1.1 Next This topic collects proposals for modifications of the TAP 1.1 specification in order to improve the next revision of the specification. Errata to the...
VOUnits next steps There are no current plans to develop the VOUnits specification. However this page collects a few minor errata and suggestions for future work...
Semantics Session at the May 2023 Interop, Bologna, Italy Thursday, May 13, 2023, Room 216, Concress Center Bologna See InterOpMay2023 for the complete programme...
Existing IVOA Education Resources and Tutorials VO tutorials Tutorials in English Graduate level Tutorials for SIMBAD, VizieR, Aladin National Virtual...
Science platforms IVOA May 2023 Interoperability Meeting back to main programme page There are two sessions dedicated to discussing science platforms at the...
Interop2023 VOTLibRust FXPineau.pdf Applications Working Group Sessions: May 2023, Bologna, Italy Apps I Wednesday, May 10, 11:00 12:30, Plenary Room...
Data Model Working Group Sessions: May 2023, Bologna, Italy DM1 session is focused on things related to VODML and annotation. A large part of the session is open...
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIS) in Open Science, May 2023 G.Landais, Gus Muench, Raffaele d`Abrusco back to main programme page Wednesday May 10 14:...
Theory IG Session IVOA May 2023 Interoperability Meeting back to main programme page There will be a single session for the Theory Interest Group, as follows...
IVOA Landing page review (Sep 2022) From Bruce for the Exec: Does the web page design and content convey the sense that the IVOA is an important and dynamic body in...
STC version 2.0 Goal Why STC 2.0? Version 1 of STC was developed in 2007, prior to the development and adoption of vo dml modeling practices. As we progress to...
IVOA Newcomers Starting point and materials to start grabbing the basics of the IVOA and the VO world Recordings from previous Newcomers sessions Here are recordings...
Dataset Metadata: Splinter session Motivation: Now that the core models of the Cube family (Meas/Coords) are completed, we return our attention to the next group...
Model Annotation in VOTables (MIVOT) MIVOT at a Glance Model Instances in VOTables (MIVOT) defines a syntax to map VOTable data to any model serizalized in VODML...
Program Prep List Virtual IVOA meeting (May 7 12, 2023) Meeting web link: a href `https://indico.ict.inaf.it/e/ivoa/interop may 2023` target ` top` https://indico...
Plans for the science platform sessions at the 2023 May interop So far we have 9 talks spread across 2 x 90min sessions. Allocation is random at the moment, apart...
DALI 1.1 Errata This page collects errata for 1.1 Accepted Errata DALI 1.1 Erratum 1: Drop resource attribute on continuation. Rejected Errata Proposed Errata...
ADQL 2.0 Errata Page status report for Errata related to the ADQL 2.0 specification. (ADQL 2.0 next features page is available here). Accepted Errata ADQL...
DALI 1.1 Erratum 1: Drop resource attribute on continuation Author: Markus Demleitner Date last changed: 2023 01 20 Date accepted: 2023 04 05 Rationale In section...
Howto create FITS images/spectra to be VO compatible FITS format is a popular output used in astronomy for spectra and images. FITS recommendations when applied enable...
Drafts for the session invites and logistics for the GWS and science platform sessions Email to all the main working groups, starting the discussion about updating...
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...
ADQL 2.1 Next This topic collects proposals for modifications of the ADQL 2.1 specification in order to improve the next revision of the specification. Following the...
IVOA Data Model Working Group Introduction The role of the Data Modeling group is to provide a framework for the description of metadata attached to observed or...
IVOA Roadmap for 2022A This outlines the roadmap for development activities by the various IVOA working and interest groups between the Apr 2022 and Oct 2022 Interops...
TimeDomain Data model TimeSeriesDM derived from NDCube Description to come ... More TimeObs Obscore extension for Time Domain datasets For timeseries dataset discovery...
This page collects proposals for modifications to ObsCore 1.1, leading up to 1.2 Proposed new Features None yet Proposed modifications Improve Sample Queries The...
Archive of work done within the Semantics WG For current activities, see IvoaSemantics. Towards Vocabularies 2 In preparation to the effort of modernising the Vocabularies...
This page collects proposals for modifications to Vocabularies 2.1 leading up to either 2.2 or 3.0. Proposed New Features Specify that desise exposes useInstead...
Multi Order Coverage map 2.0 Errata This page collects errata for MOC 2.0 specification. More information on the MOC specification can be found here). Accepted Errata...
Multi Order Coverage map version 2.0 Erratum 1: replaced Recommendation document Author: Marco Molinaro Date last changed: 2022 08 30 Date accepted: 2022 12 07 Rationale...
Vocabularies in the VO 2.1 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments This is a Request for Comments on a minor update on Vocabularies in the VO, just updating...
Program Prep List Virtual IVOA meeting (May 7 12, 2023) Meeting web link: https://indico.ict.inaf.it/e/ivoa/interop may 2023 (NOT active yet) Program link: https...
Programming with IVOA Vocabularies The IVOA`s specification was written with the express goal that the VO`s semantic resources should be programmatically usable with...
Obscore 1.1 Next This topic collects proposals for modifications of the Obscore 1.1 specification. Proposed Features Proposed Updates Drop not null requirement...
Writing Registry Records for IVOA Standards Authors of IVOA standards which use IVOIDs (for instance, to reference capability identifiers) must submit registry records...
XML Schema Versioning Policies: Endorsed Note Request for TCG Comments and Approvals Document Link: Schema Versioning Policies Comments from the interested public...
under construction 2016 january , 15 CollectionXmatchObscoreUsecase Simple Query by Position Show me a list of all data that satisfies: 1 DataType any...
XML Serialisation for the ObsCore Model The ObsCore Model may also be implemented using XML serialisation. Here are some preliminary examples of XML documents and...