VOEvent v2.0, some thoughts

[Alasdair Allan]

Rob Seaman wrote:
> Alasdair Allan wrote:
>> We should possibly think about (at the 2.0 stage?) actually  
>> publishing the VOEvent standard as a paper as well. It's all very  
>> well pointing towards an IVOA URL, but it's not as good as a paper  
>> in a journal is it? We should publish it...
>
> Can somebody comment on any general IVOA policy for this?  As with  
> so many other activities that VOEvent is pushing (well, "shoving"  
> might not be too aggressive a characterization) forward, we should  
> be delighted to be the IVOA pacesetter for refereed publication of  
> standards, too.  I hesitate to speculate who the journals might  
> possibly find for referees appropriate to IVOA activities :-)
>
> A&A (and Suppl.) welcomed the FITS standard - I don't see why that  
> might not apply to IVOA standards like VOEvent.  I'm not looking  
> forward to translating HTML to LaTeX, but that's better the  
> reverse, I suppose.  ...ah - they seem to want PDF, that's seems  
> more friendly entirely.

A&A seems like a good choice I think.

Al.