Applications Interest Group

1
Applications Interest Group

• Seven presentations on diverse VO-based and
  VO-related applications
• Visualization Aladin V3.0 (F. Ochsenbein),
  VO-enabled Mirage (M. Nieto)
• Catalog and database access OpenSkyQuery
  portal, CasJobs (M. Nieto), Catalog Data
  Interface Tool (J. Gupchup)
• VOTable display and translation tools STILTS,
  TOPCAT (M. Taylor)
• Spectral analysis SPLAT (M. Taylor), NVO
  Spectrum Services (M. Nieto), VOSpec (P. Osuna)

2
Applications Interest Group

• Seven presentations on diverse VO-based and
  VO-related applications (contd)
• Accessing legacy applications with web services
  (M. Fitzpatrick)
• Building client-side applications (N. Winstanley)
• VO support for solar system studies (F. Genova)

3
Applications Interest Group

• VO infrastructure rich enough to support quite
  sophisticated applications
• Some frustration over shifting sands, especially
  from prototype to initial release of SSAP

4
Applications Interest Group

• Discussion regarding need/desirability of
  defining supported platforms for IVOA
  applications
• Core set of browsers
• Core set of software development environments
• Core set of operating systems
• Consensus AIG should suggest modest suite of
  platforms and suggest that VO projects try to
  support their applications on them. Goal is to
  foster take-up of VO apps, avoid breakage when
  users alternate among tools (e.g., OSQ portal
  starts VOPlot)