Re: Proposed Agenda for Applications Interest Group Session

From: Chenzhou Cui <ccz-at-bao.ac.cn>
Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 10:54:22 +0800

Thomas McGlynn wrote:

>
> Existing VO applications (short presentations by developers)
> - What VO applications are out there that people can
> use in doing science?
> SkyQuery, DIS, GAVO correlator, Spectrum/filter server, VOPlot, ...
> - What is currently under active development?
>

"VOTFilter", an XML filter for OpenOffice Calc to read&write VOTable file has been developed by China-VO. It's a useful tool to link VO services to industrial desktop application. please visit:

http://www.china-vo.org/services/vofilter/

for more information.

>
> Does the VO need any common infrastructure to support application
> development?
> - Standardized documentation
> - Configuration management
> - Testing
> - Portability of applications
> - SOAP and CGI
>

I feel, a general framework to integrate existing astronomical applications into VO system is also an interesting and important topic.

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