Kyoto meeting

[Francois Ochsenbein]

Dear VOTablers,

It seems that everytbody is quite happy with VOTable --
my interpretation of an absence of reaction being a a full agreement :-)
There is still room for discussions... and the agenda does not need
to be frozen now.

See many of you in Kyoto !

--Francois

>The Kyoto meeting is coming soon, and despite of the stability
>and large usage of VOTable, there are a few topics to discuss in
>the VOTable session scheduled on Monday 16 afternoon:
>
>-- the question of the changes in UCDs -- discussed last summer but
>   without a real conclusion. The UCD1+ look now mature so what to do:
>   simply replace in VOTable's the UCD by the new definitions?
>   Is there any risk to generate failures of working VObs elements ?
>   Should we add a dedicated "ucd1" element ?
>
>-- the question of the VOTable schema, initiated by Gerard Lemson
>   (http://ivoa.net/forum/votable/0504/0748.htm)
>   Surprisingly there was no comment about Gerard's proposal --
>   does it mean that everybody agrees it's the way to go ?
>
>-- the question of the definition of the coordinates (the COOSYS element)
>   which was not yet discussed -- but there has been recent discussions
>   on a similar topic in the dm-catalog sub-group, and there are obvious
>   connections with this data-model.
>
>There should be also short presentations of working applications.
>And of course any topic that is felt to be important could be
>discussed there -- it's however better is these discussions can
>be scheduled.
>
>Please feel free to comment, suggest, ... and I hope to
>see many of you in Kyoto !

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