Proposed Agenda for Applications Interest Group Session

[Chenzhou Cui]

Thomas McGlynn wrote:

> 
> Existing VO applications (short presentations by developers)
>   - What VO applications are out there that people can
>     use in doing science?
>        SkyQuery, DIS, GAVO correlator, Spectrum/filter server, VOPlot, ...
>   - What is currently under active development?
> 

"VOTFilter", an XML filter for OpenOffice Calc to read&write VOTable 
file has been developed by China-VO. It's a useful tool to link VO 
services to industrial desktop application. please visit:

http://www.china-vo.org/services/vofilter/

for more information.

> 
> Does the VO need any common infrastructure to support application 
> development?
>   - Standardized documentation
>   - Configuration management
>   - Testing
>   - Portability of applications
>   - SOAP and CGI
> 
I feel, a general framework to integrate existing astronomical 
applications into VO system is also an interesting and important topic.

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