Welcome to the VOEvent Project

The objective of the VOEvent effort is to define the content and meaning of a standard information packet for representing, transmitting, archiving, and publishing a discovery of an immediate event in the sky. The objective is to drive robotic telescopes, to drive archive searches, to alert the community, and to build interoperable archives. The effort will include not just "photon" events, but also gravitational waves, neutrinos, air showers, etc.

More information about VOEvent can be found on the IVOA Wiki.