VOEventLib

version 0.3
Roy Williams and Dave Kuhlmann
2011 April 23

VOEventLib is a reference implementation and parser for the VOEvent2 XML specification, now under discussion at the IVOA. For more information about VOEvent, see VOEvent in wikipedia, or read the the book Hotwiring the Transient Universe or the draft specification of VOEvent 2.0. There is also the Skyalert web application for publishing and dissemination of real-time astronomical events.

The get and set methods of VOEventLib are all defined in the detailed documentation.

The software is available as:

http://lib.skyalert.org/VOEventLib/VOEventLib-0.3.tar.gz
Then unpack the archive and install as usual:
sudo python setup.py install
then run and modify the example programs.

The contents of the lib directory is:

• README.txt
• setup.py
• VOEventLib
• VOEvent.py Main module, autogenerated from schema, documented here
• Vutil.py Utility and helper methods, documented here
• doc
• index.html Documentation for all the methods
• VOEvent.html VOEvent2 draft specification
• examples: Example code for VOEventLib
  • README
  • buildVOEvent.py Create an event from scratch
  • format_to_html.py Make an HTML representation of an event
  • modify.py Modify an existing event
  • runall.sh Run all the example codes in sequence
  • simpleevent.py Build a very simple event
  • tables.py List the tables in an event file
  • sample.html The result of turning the sample event to html as above
• events: Some sample events
• CRTSsample.xml sample from the CRTS stream
• LIGO-LOFAR.xml sample from the LIGO-LOFAR stream
• SD29A8A.xml sample CSS_NEO event
• SWIFT.xml sample SWIFT event
• SWIFTCircular.xml sample of SWIFT circular
• event4.xml The event listed in section 4 of the VOEvent specification
• sample.xml The event created by the buildVOEvent example
• schema
• VOEvent-v2.0.xsd Schema for VOEvent
• VOEvent-v1.1.xsd Deprecated 1.1 schema