> Anybody planning to attend this workshop?
From:
http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/UNBSS_Tokyo07/
click on through to:
and then to:
http://ihy2007.org/observatory/observatory.shtml
which is an extensive list of instrumentation meant "to provide global measurements of ionospheric and heliospheric phenomena". It occurs to me that one thing we haven't focused enough attention on is that VOEvent is a reasonable choice for reporting almost any time sequence of measurements. The reporting of short latency transient alerts is only one use case.
In particular, one has to believe that the fifteen different remotely sited IHY instrument data streams are each completely different in format and transport. Many are undoubtedly conceived purely as data recorders for later retrieval - VOEvent would be an unlikely choice due to the storage overhead of XML. But others may report each measurement in turn, or on some regular schedule. Simply standardizing the format for such a joint/community initiative has a significant value. Several of these instruments appear to have a "classic" transient reporting aspect at any rate.
Rob Received on 2007-04-23Z04:26:31