DAL sessions in Victoria

[Tony Linde]

> interoperability when (a) technology can be reused, or (b) 
> when different science communities see a benefit in data federation.

Point (a) is already met: AstroGrid technology is used in solar, stp and
astro communitites and is useful to any of the others (we've just not been
pushing it yet). And it sounds like a simple time series access would be
useful, possibly satisfying both if there is enough commonality - worth
investigating anyway.

Certainly UWS, VOSpace, Security (auth/auth), Registry (basics if not all
schemas) and VOTable are immediately applicable to any community as well as
the more generic aspects of VOEvent and VOQL. In short, there is probably a
lot more commonality of interest than difference.

T.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Williams [mailto:roy at cacr.caltech.edu] 
> Sent: 26 April 2006 15:33
> To: Tony Linde
> Cc: Roy Williams; dal at ivoa.net
> Subject: Re: DAL sessions in Victoria
> 
> 
> On Apr 26, 2006, at 2:59 AM, Tony Linde wrote:
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> 
> The same question is coming up with the geographical 
> community (OpenGIS). We observe that the sphere of the Earth 
> and the celestial sphere are both spheres. The OpenGIS Web 
> Mapping Server can deliver images of either. Client = NASA 
> Worldwind, Server = WMS.
> 
> I would suggest, in broad terms, that we spend time on 
> interoperability when (a) technology can be reused, or (b) 
> when different science communities see a benefit in data federation.
> 
> Roy
>