IVOA Applications

Applications Working Group Charter
- Organisation
- Interop Meetings
News
Links
Applications Standards Development
Mailing-list
Documents

Chair: Mark Taylor
Vice Chair: Enrique Solano

Applications Working Group Charter

The IVOA Applications Working Group is concerned primarily with the software tools that Astronomers use to access VO data and services for doing Astronomy.

The VO is enabling new ways of doing Astronomy. Interoperability between Astronomy data, services and software empowers astronomers to combine these for scientific discovery and analysis. VO Applications may take many forms such as GUI desktop applications, software libraries, web interfaces to services, or other innovative 'portals' to the VO. Legacy Astronomy software is becoming VO enabled and new and novel VO applications are being created. The IVOA Applications Working Group provides a means for VO Applications development and implementation to be closely linked to the standards development in the IVOA, and where necessary to propose and develop standards for VO Applications to interoperate.

The role of the Applications Working Group is to:

Provide a forum for announcement and discussion of VO Applications

Provide feedback to IVOA on the implementation of interoperability

standards in VO applications

Identify missing or desirable technical capabilities for VO applications

Identify missing or desirable components in terms of scientific usability

Propose and develop standards specific to VO Astronomy-user-Applications

Organisation

The Applications Working Group is overseen by a chair and deputy chair approved by the IVOA executive. The chairs organise the interop meeting sessions, and fulfil the normal responsibilities of a WG chair for publishing proposed recommendations.

Standards proposed for development within the Applications Working Group are to be considered within the wider context of the IVOA, and care should be taken to interface appropriately with other working groups. Development of Applications Working Group standards is ideally done by small teams. These teams are required to make a mission plan and to report regularly to the group.

Interop Meetings

Applications sessions at Interop meeting will be organised for

General discussion, announcement and demonstration of VO applications.

Technical development of interoperability standards for VO applications.

News

Applications IG sessions at Interop Meetings:

May, 2012: InterOpMay2012Applications
Oct, 2011: InterOpOct2011Applications
May, 2011: InterOpMay2011Applications
Dec, 2010: InterOpDec2010Applications
May, 2010: InterOpMay2010Applications
Nov, 2009: InterOpNov2009Applications
May, 2009: InterOpMay2009Applications
Oct, 2008: InterOpOct2008Applications
May, 2008: InterOpMay2008Applications
Sept, 2007: InterOpSep2007Applications
May, 2007: InterOpMay2007Applications
Sept, 2006: InterOpSept2006Applications
May, 2006: InterOpMay2006Applications
Oct 06, 2005: InterOpOct2005Applications
May 17, 2005: InterOpMay2005Applications
May 25, 2004: InterOpMay2004Applications

Links

Applications (Please add new links by editing this page)

NVO Portal Services	US National Virtual Observatory
DataScope	Broadcast query
RVS	Remote Visualization System
VOPlot - VOIndia	A plotting software tool for visualizing astronomical data input in various tabular formats (such as VOTable, FITS etc)
TOPCAT	Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
STILTS	Command-line tools for table/VOTable manipulation
Treeview	A viewer for hierarchical structures
NOAO VOTool	A VOTable Visualization and Editing Tool
CDS Aladin	Image and Catalogue tool
Bell Labs Mirage	Multi-dimensional visualization of data from VOTable
ESA VOSpec	A tool to handle VO compliant spectra through SSAP
VOSED	A tool for building Spectral Energy distributions
VODesktop	A resource-centered desktop client for VO: includes VOExplorer, Query and Task Runner, Astroscope, Myspace Browser
VisIVO	A Visualisation Interface to the Virtual Observatory
A list of Visualization Tools	VOTech Project DS6 survey
A Study On Existing Tools	VOTech Project
China VO VOFliter	VOTable Filter for OpenOffice Calc
VOTable2XHTML	XSLT Stylesheet for VOTable to HTML
SPLAT	Spectral Analysis Tool
SAADA	Auto-Configurable Database Generator
Octet	CVO Observation Catalog Exploration Tool
NOAO NVO Portal	NOAO Image Visualization Discovery Tool
NOAO WCSFixer	The NOAO Web-enabled IRAF Plate Solver
VO-CLI	Command-line Tools for the VO
AR Commandline	Python commandline VO tools
VOStat - VOIndia	A tool for statistical analysis of astronomical data
VOCat - VOIndia	A catalog data interface tool
Mosaic Service - VOIndia	SDSS, 2MASS & HST FITS Image Mosaic Service
Pymorph Service - VOIndia	Web service for automated galaxy structural parameter estimation using PYTHON
VOIndia Portal	A portal with gadgets specially designed for Astronomers. Acts as a single point of entry for all VOIndia web services.
VOConvert - VOIndia	A tool for converting files from one format to another (ASCII to VOTable; FITS to VOTable; VOTable to ASCII)

Applications Infrastructure

Astro Runtime	Middleware that makes it simple to call VO services from programs and science scripts
Common Execution Architecture (CEA)	A methodology and toolkit for VO enabling legacy applications by publishing them as web services

Libraries and Parsers

JAVOT (CalTech)	Java VOTable parser
SAVOT (CDS)	Java VOTable parser
STIL	Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library - Generic Java Table Handling for Astronomy
C++ Parser - VOIndia	VOTable parser
VOTable Parser (Caltech/Spitzer Science Center)	Java VOTable parser based XMLBeans
IDL VOlib	Libraries for using VO services (requires IDL 6.+)
VORuby	RUBY language libraries for using VO Services
CSharpFITS Package - VOIndia	C# support for reading and writing FITS files

Protocols and Formats

IVOA Standards Documents

PLASTIC - PLatform for AStronomical Tool InterCommunication

Applications Standards Development

SampInfo
ApplicationsMessaging (historical interest)
Messaging Work Plan (historical interest)

Mailing-list

Applications Interest Group Discussion Forum archive. (Email: apps@ivoa.net)

Documents

AIG report to IVOA Executive committee V0.1	(.doc)	May 2004
Table 2 for AIG Report	(.xls)	May 2004
Querying heterogeneous datasets with Saada	(.ppt)	May 2006
Saada demo presented at BEIJING	(.ppt)	May 2007

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