UN Science Workshop in Tokyo, June, 2007

[Rob Seaman]

> Anybody planning to attend this workshop?

From:

	http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/UNBSS_Tokyo07/

click on through to:

	http://ihy2007.org

and then to:

	http://ihy2007.org/observatory/observatory.shtml

which is an extensive list of instrumentation meant "to provide  
global measurements of ionospheric and heliospheric phenomena".  It  
occurs to me that one thing we haven't focused enough attention on is  
that VOEvent is a reasonable choice for reporting almost any time  
sequence of measurements.  The reporting of short latency transient  
alerts is only one use case.

In particular, one has to believe that the fifteen different remotely  
sited IHY instrument data streams are each completely different in  
format and transport.  Many are undoubtedly conceived purely as data  
recorders for later retrieval - VOEvent would be an unlikely choice  
due to the storage overhead of XML.  But others may report each  
measurement in turn, or on some regular schedule.  Simply  
standardizing the format for such a joint/community initiative has a  
significant value.  Several of these instruments appear to have a  
"classic" transient reporting aspect at any rate.

Rob

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