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title: "IVOA Roadmap"
date: 2024-10-28T18:10:54+01:00
draft: false
tags:
- about
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Since its formation in 2002, the IVOA can boast of a number of achievements:
- Reaching truly world-wide cohesion in debating and agreeing key astronomical standards.
The IVOA is endorsed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as the accepted method
for producing astronomical data-related standards. Our standards are passed on to
IAU Commission 5 for ratification.
- Establishing a forum for discussing and debating astronomical data technology in general
as well VO standards in particular. The twice yearly "Interoperability Meetings" have been
a key feature in resolving international differences as well as sharing ideas and technology.
- Rapid agreement on an initial set of basic standards - a table exchange format, a specification
for simple catalogue and image query services, the definition of metadata describing resources,
a dictionary for standardised column names, and a suite of standards allowing the construction
of VO registries. Services complying with these initial standards are already deployed around the world.
Also very successful has been the definition of a simple standardised way for applications to pass
messages between each other, so they can collaborate smoothly on VO tasks. At the time of writing
the IVOA has agreed a crucial new standard, the Table Access Protocol, which allows software
to send flexible queries to a wide variety of databases.

The IVOA is working hard on further standards, including those needed for virtual storage
addressing, single sign on, semantic reasoning, grid and web service modularisation.

The last semestral roadmap document maintained by the TCG is the 2024A
Roadmap, spanning the time between the May 2024 and November 2024
Interoperability meetings and can be found
[here](http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/2024ARoadmap)
([Roadmap 2024A](http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/2024ARoadmap)).

All [Technical Roadmap Documents](https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/TCGRoadmaps)
can be found at this [wiki page](https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/TCGRoadmaps).

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