If we are looking at use-case driven priorities for standards, then something else which has come up in RadioNet is Proposal Tools.
Reps from European radio observatories and ALMA have had discussions about designing as homogenous as possible an interface for users making web-based observing proposals. I know that something similar is going on with US radio (at least) observatories, and as the common link is ALMA there is some hope of overall coherence....
We did identify the need to establish a common model (not for small
details, just to simplify terminology etc.). The drivers for this are
a) Allow software to be shared (as proposal tools use exposure calculators
etc.)
b) Reduce the learning curve for users
c) Make it easier to make multi-telescope proposals
There is also the wish to use VO facilities to search for calibration sources etc. and invesigate what is known already about the region of interest. More widely, the concept includes all kinds of proposals including for supercomputing facilities and potentially for very demanding VO projects!
At present we don't envisage proposal tools integrated into VO interfaces nor that a search for X would produce a response 'no data yet but you could propose an observation with IRAM, deadline 99th of Thermidor' (although projects like ESTAR are moving in this direction), but to employ a VO approach to standards and to link to VO facilities (e.g. cone search).
I am probably not going to Kyoto and I don't know if it is worth a special session, but if anyone else is interested we can set up a forum.
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