VOEvent Workshop, April 13/14 Pasadena

[Roy Williams]

You are warmly invited to the:
VOEvent Workshop
sponsored by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

Dates:
Weds 13th and Thurs 14th April 2005
please mark your diary

Location:
CACR, California Instittute of Technology
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/find_us.html

Web page:
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/viewauth/IVOA/VoeventWorkshop

Registration: 
Please send email to Roy Williams (roy at caltech.edu). 

Mailing list:
Even if you can't come to the workshop, please sign up to the VOEvent mailing list (send the message "subscribe voevent" to majordomo at ivoa.net)

Agenda:
-- Define scope and reach a consensus on the semantic content of a discovery/followup message for an immediate sky event. This will be based on the existing draft at the IVOA Twiki.

-- Consideration of serializing such a message into XML components, with re-use of existing schema where relevant.

-- Language by which clients could subscribe to a VOEvent server, with fine control over which messages are to be received.

-- Database and transport technologies for carrying VOEvent messages.

-- How existing systems could have a VOEvent capability.added with maximal functionality and minimal effort.

-- Finding volunteers to set up prototype systems.


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California Institute of Technology
roy at caltech.edu
626 395 3670
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