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<p>Dear IVOA members,</p>
<p>Following the Interop Trieste IVOA decision, I'm pleased to
announce that the <b>HiPS WD 1.0 has been promoted to PR 1.0.<br>
It is available on the IVOA document repository</b> (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ivoa.net/documents/HiPS/index.html">http://www.ivoa.net/documents/HiPS/index.html</a>).</p>
<p>The HiPS standardization process has been decided one year ago at
the Sydney Interop meeting in November 2015. This document derives
from the HiPS note (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ivoa.net/documents/Notes/HiPS/index.html">http://www.ivoa.net/documents/Notes/HiPS/index.html</a>)
with additions and contributions of HiPS authors, contributors and
HiPS producers who have accepted to participate to the elaboration
of this document: Pierre Fernique (CDS), Mark Allen (CDS), Thomas
Boch (CDS), Tom Donaldson (STScI), Daniel Durand (CADC), Ken
Ebisawa (JAXA), Laurent Michel (SSC-XMM), Jesus Salgado (ESAC),
Felix Stoehr (ALMA).</p>
As HiPS is already used by the community, a collection of HiPS,
tools, servers, clients are already available on various places. A
list of links to some of them is provided below which can illustrate
the document. <br>
<ul>
<li>Clients: <a href="http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinDesktop/">Aladin
Desktop</a>,<a
href="http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/doc/"> Aladin Lite</a>
(and derived tools: <a
href="http://cds.unistra.fr/Gaia/DR1/AL-visualisation.gml">Gaia
in AL</a>, <a href="http://sky.esa.int/">ESAsky</a>, <a
href="https://losc.ligo.org/s/skymapViewer/aladin/index.html#GW150914:LALI">Skymap
Viewer</a>, <a href="http://darts.isas.jaxa.jp/astro/judo2/">JUDO2</a>,
<a href="http://www.adsass.org/aladin/">ADS all-Sky</a>, <a
href="http://hologhost.altervista.org/pointing/mopra.html">MOPRA</a>,...),
<a href="http://sitools2.github.io/MIZAR/">MIZAR</a> (CNES), VAO
portal (STScI).<br>
</li>
<li>Servers: Leiden, IRAP, SSC, CDS, AMIGA, svo.ba, IAS, ESAC,
JAXA => <a href="http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/hips/list">HiPS
collection</a> (~ 350 HiPS / 100TB)</li>
<li>HiPS generators: <a
href="http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/hips/HipsIn10Steps.gml">Hipsgen</a>,
<a href="http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/hips/HipsCat.gml">Hipsgen-cat
</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The authors of this document have voluntarily tried to minimalize
the potential impact of this HiPS evolution/standardization on
these already existing HiPS components. The specifical HiPS PR
evolutions are mainly related to the meta data description
(Obscore vocabulary, IVOA registry declaration, ...): a
transitional period should be easily manageable without requiring
the full regeneration of HiPS data collection.<br>
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<p>Questions, comments, feedback are welcome on the Apps mailing
list.<br>
<b>The RFC period will start the 15th of December 2016</b> (=>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/HiPSRFC">http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/HiPSRFC</a>)<br>
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<p>Best regards<br>
Pierre Fernique<br>
<br>
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