Minutes of VOTech Stage 4 Meeting
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Wed, 04-Sep-2006, CDS, Strasbourg


Session DS4 reporting


Chair & Minutes: M. Dolensky [MD]


Thomas Boch 	General progress report for CDS

Pierre Fernique Manipulation of cubes in Aladin (demo) 	 

Q: supported 3D formats
A: 'pure' 3d FITS cubes; CGPS and Sinfoni euro3d cubes work

Thomas Boch 	IDL/Aladin interface (demo) 	 

Q: Packaging of (IDL) modules and configuration of X
A: Described on Wiki. Additional modules can be installed as usual.

Q: Is support of other scripting languages easier once it's done for IDL?
A: Generally not.

Pierre Fernique Study and evaluation of low level interfaces 	 

Jean Malapert 	Mag2Flux Demo; Instr. Footprints

Q: How to go about mag2flux conv. for non ESO instruments?
A: How to go about the general problem is the purpose of Andreas' following presentation ...

Andreas Wicenec SEDs - Standardization Requirements

=> hack-a-thon (Wed) to define scope of data modeling effort required and
 bring it forward to IVOA WG with a list of people involved

Markus Dolensky DAL: 3D access and Result Ranking, IAU GA in Prague

Mark Taylor  STILTS Enhancements and TOPCAT plotting demo

Q: Publication quality plot capabilities?
A: Bug fixes for .gif and .ps; but no plan to add fine tuning for axes, labels etc.
   suggests to export and use some other tool in case 
Q: seeking clarification on exact multicone search
A: will do during hack-a-thon

Noel Winstaneley	Astroscope Improvements

Riccardo Smareglia	INAF DS4 status and TVO data model

Valeria Manna		TVO web service and Virtual Telescope prototypy

=> identified need to integrate TVO model with Characterization DM 
   topic for hack-a-ton

on behalf of Pedro Osuna, ESAC:	videos of improved tool functionality
http://wiki.eurovotech.org/twiki/bin/viewfile/VOTech/DS4PlanningStage04?rev=1;filename=flux_vega_case_full.exe
http://wiki.eurovotech.org/twiki/bin/viewfile/VOTech/DS4PlanningStage04?rev=1;filename=phot_vela_case_full.exe

Francoise Genova	(new IVOA chair person) Summary of Special Session 3 from IAU GA XXVI