VOEvent at Victoria: Call for Agenda

[Roy Williams]

The VOEvent Working Group of the IVOA will meet at the IVOA Interop,  
Victoria, Canada. The first session is 15.00 Monday May 15, the  
second at 16.00 Thursday May 18.

For those of you who will be at the Victoria meeting, we are asking  
for discussion topics and for level of interest. Would you like to  
join the exciting field of transient astronomy? Are you interested in  
VOEvent? Which topic below interests you most? Do you have an event  
stream or a robotic telescope? Do you have expertise in messaging  
protocols?

We need you help on the Event Vocabulary. If you have a favorite type  
of event that you want a standard name for, please check that the  
proposed draft vocabulary [Ref 2 below] can express its semantics.   
If not, please write to voevent at ivoa.net with your concern.

Agenda Topics

-- Authors and Subscribers, who wants to join the network, how to do  
so? What science comes from immediate followups? To whom should we  
sell VOEvent?
-- Transport of VOEvents: please come if you have an opinion about  
messaging protocols (Jabber, JMS, etc)
-- Event Vocabulary: UCD-like ontology for event types
-- Summary of activity in the projects: VOEventnet, eStar, NOAO
-- Progress in making GCN2 as a VOEvent network
-- Usage recommendations for STC
-- Registry schemas for Publisher and Repository
-- Interfaces (SEAP) for resolution, query/subscribe
-- VOEvent 1.1 schema changes, adoption of draft as 1.1

Mini-Talks and discussion leads:
Allen, Graham, Warner, Williams, who else?

Links:
(1) VOEvent Working Group
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaVOEvent

(2) VOEvent Vocabulary
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOEventVocabulary

(3) IVOA Interop, Victoria
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2006


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