VOEvent 2.0

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Features to add for v2.0

• Time series
• Orbital elements
• improvements to References
• hooks for external schemata (e.g., Heliophysics Knowledgebase)
• hooks for VO Vocabularies

Features to deprecate for v2.0

Schema

How should the VOEvent Schema be modified? Bob Denny has some suggestions:

• VOEventSchema.zip

Registry

How should VOEvents interact with the VO Registry?

• VOEventStreams
• VOEventServers

Features and topics for the future (post-v2.0)

• Digital signing technology (external to packet)
• Query - Simple Event Access Protocol (SEAP)

Complaints

What is not right about the current VOEvent definition?

• VOEventSchema.zip: Bob Denny's note