May 2016 InterOp

[John Swinbank]

Dear TDIG,

We will have one session for this IG at the upcoming InterOp meeting. I’ve already received one contribution to the agenda: please send me yours now.

Here are some thoughts to get your creative juices flowing:

- Just today I (finally…) submitted the VOEvent standard to François Bonnarel with the intention that it moves to PR state: watch this space for details.
- Jean-Paul, I would love to hear more about the latest news from Svom and the success you’re having with VOEvent transport over XMPP. Will you be at the meeting? If not, can you suggest somebody who will be there who can give an update?
- Do either VTP or XMPP really properly fill the niche? Twitter are distributing mind-numbing volume of event data over HTTP — why aren’t we?
- Tim Staley announced his voeventdb service for archiving and querying VOEvents to this list in January. Unfortunately, Tim won’t be at the meeting, but he’s promised to send a few slides. Has anybody tried this service? Do you have feedback? [I was using it just this past Sunday. Works great!]
- I spent much of this afternoon sitting in an LSST discussion about their plans for announcing transients, touching on the format and content of alert packets and the transport mechanism. They’ve already announced ambitious plans for what they want to include in events (see http://ls.st/lse-163 p29), and they aren’t backing down. What can we do to be ready?
- What’s the next steps on time series data? Is anybody ready to lead this charge?

No doubt there are many other topics I’ve missed: have at it.

Cheers,

John