DAL sessions in Victoria

[Tony Linde]

> It is an interesting question for the IVOA whether its scope 
> should include solar and planetary data.  Currently we don't 

AstroGrid has always included Solar (& STP, Planetary, ...) in its remit
since the infrastructure is the same regardless of the end users. Perhaps
this could be discussed at the Sunday architecture meeting.
: Roy?

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dal at eso.org [mailto:owner-dal at eso.org] On Behalf 
> Of Doug Tody
> Sent: 25 April 2006 23:42
> To: Silvia Dalla
> Cc: dal at ivoa.net; Frank Hill
> Subject: Re: DAL sessions in Victoria
> 
> Hi Silvia -
> 
> Thanks, that helps a bit to clarify things.
> 
> Note that the next version of SIAP will support queries by 
> time and spectral bandpass as well as position (among other 
> things).  The main reason for having a separate protocol for 
> solar data would be if the metadata required to describe 
> solar data is significantly different.
> Here in the US for example, the VSO (Virtual Solar 
> Observatory) has their own protocols which are tuned to their 
> data.  At the most basic level these are similar to what we 
> have in IVOA, but there are substantial differences, e.g., 
> position refers to the solar surface or the corona, the 
> observed attributes may include things like acoustic power or 
> number of sunspots, and so forth.  The metadata returned to 
> describe an image or other observation would probably be 
> substantially different.  See for example http://vso.nso.edu/.
> 
> It is an interesting question for the IVOA whether its scope 
> should include solar and planetary data.  Currently we don't 
> really address this, and these disciplines tend to already 
> have their own "VO" (at least here in the US).  However, 
> there is some contact and there are occasional discussions 
> about increasing interoperability or possibly sharing technology.
> 
>      - Doug
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Silvia Dalla wrote:
> 
> > You can find a first draft of the STAP protocol here:
> > 
> http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/s.dalla/astrogrid/strap.ht
> > ml
> >
> > best wishes,
> > Silvia
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Doug Tody wrote:
> >> Guy - Can you say more about this? Is this for time series data 
> >> (light curves)
> > or >for synoptic imagery? Assuming the latter, how does it 
> differ from 
> > SIAP with a >time-based query, or slices through a time cube? - Doug
> >>
> >> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Guy Rixon wrote:
> >>> AstroGrid also have a time-based, SIAP-like protocol which we are 
> >>> producing for the Solar Physicists. It's called Simple 
> Time-series Access Protocol.
> >
>