Clive,
> I recently submitted an item on `future issues' for the VOTable to the
> IVOA (the somewhat grandiloquently-named `International Virtual
> Observatory Alliance; http://www.ivoa.net/) VOTable e-mail distribution
> list. Two of the points that I mentioned include: using AST for
> representing WCS info. and mixing XML and binary data (albeit in the
> context of VOTable). Anyone interested in these issues might consider
> signing up for the list. In particular David B. might want to monitor it
> in case any questions are asked about AST; I don't feel competent to
> answer any but the simplest. To sign up see URL:
>
> http://www.ivoa.net/forum/index.html
>
> and choose the VOTable forum (second from last in the table).
Already done it, but I'm awaiting "approval" in order to reply to Anita's
comments.
> Anyone
> really interested in this stuff might also consider a sojourn in
> Cambridge:
>
> http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2003
>
> Personally I'm trying to give it up in favour of, shock horror probe,
> actually writing some code. But I don't suppose I'll succeed.
Mark, Norman and I are going (plus DLG). We have all asked to give
presentations on various relevant aspects of Starlink software - I've put
in an abstract for an AST/WCS related presentation.
David
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