VOEvent References

[Matthew Graham]

Get the humans out of the loop as much as possible - they can go "ah" and "ooh" at pretty pictures. The future of astronomy is machine astronomy.


On Mar 16, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Rob Seaman wrote:

>> But VOEvent is for machines not humans! ATELs are for humans.
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> I can see why a resident of a state formerly governed by the Terminator might think so :-)  But the machines, of course, are themselves for the benefit of humans.  This was, for instance, the subtext of:
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> 	http://tfa.cfht.hawaii.edu
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> VOEvent is a common format that can be used to represent the content of any type of astronomical telegram.  We (meaning Roy) are currently talking to ATEL, for instance.
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> Whether VOEvent becomes the native format for other event messaging systems is a separate question.
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> Rob
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