New VOTable 1.4 Working Draft

[Tom Donaldson]

Hi All,

A new VOTable 1.4 working draft has been published at:
http://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOTable/20190403/

The changes this time were fairly minor.  Please see the complete change logs for all the working drafts at: 
https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOTable14WorkingDraftNotes

At this point, major changes are unlikely unless we need to address issues found during implementation.  In order to move to a "Proposed Recommendation" status, we should have at least 2 reference implementations as well as provisions for validation.

Exactly what that means is up for debate, but ideally I would like to see (at least) one data provider that can utilize the TIMESYS element, and (at least) one client that can not only parse the VOTable, but also make it clear that it "understands" the TIMESYS semantics.

I will try to work on the parsing side in both the Astropy VOTable parser and probably the MAST Portal parser.  Neither of those will be able to use the TIMESYS data by themselves, so I'd be interested in hearing some possible use cases as well as getting some realistic VOTables to test on.

Please let me know if you plan on, or may get to, working on an implementation or validator.

Thanks,
Tom