Workshop on How to Publish Data in VO ESAC, June 25-June Tips & tricks by the Ivoa Document Coordinator Bruno Rino

IVOA, Tips & tricks, Page 2 IVOA, Tips & tricks  IVOA: “One ring to talk them all”  IVOA goal: interoperability of VO services  IVOA tasks:  Develop standards for interoperabilty  Promote standards adoption  IVOA communication:   Twiki

Bruno RinoIVOA, Tips & tricks, Page 3 Where to look for...?  Standard documents   Xml schemas   Working Groups (WGs)   Mailing lists 

Bruno RinoIVOA, Tips & tricks, Page 4 Standard Documents  Maturity Level:  “works-in-progress” Working Draft –for internal WG discussion; can be found in the WG pages  Working Draft –first release for WG-external review  Proposed Recommendation –consensus within WG, usually with two interoperable reference implementations  Recommendation –stable, for wide usage, approved by all WGs

Bruno RinoIVOA, Tips & tricks, Page 5 Standard Documents

Bruno RinoIVOA, Tips & tricks, Page 6 Standard Documents  Versioning  0.x  “works-in-progress” Working Draft  2.x  Applications may brake  Version numbers apply to content; a document that matures without content changes keeps his version, but the date changes  When significant changes are made to a document, it returns to being a Working Draft  IVOA Notes  Don’t define standards (no need for consensus)  Not necessarily produced within WGs, nor technical

Bruno RinoIVOA, Tips & tricks, Page 7 Xml schemas  Repository of xml schemas  (dual) Naming  / -.xsd  /v  /v  e.g. – –

Bruno RinoIVOA, Tips & tricks, Page 8 Working Groups  Working Groups (WG): cross-project teams constituted in those areas where key interoperability standards and technologies have to be defined and agreed upon  WG pages are maintained by the WG (twiki)  “works-in-progress” documents  WG charter  Roadmap  Links  etc.

Bruno RinoIVOA, Tips & tricks, Page 9 Mailing lists  based communication within WGs  Messages are archived  web browsable  built-in search  Closed subscription  To avoid spam, only subscribed persons can post messages; subscription must be approved

Bruno RinoIVOA, Tips & tricks, Page 10 Other stuff  Events calendar   Who is who? 