IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM78)

TM78 - Tue, 03 July 2018 - 15:00 UTC

Contents

• IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM78)
  • Logistics
  • Agenda
  • Reports from the Projects
    • Argentina - NOVA
    • ArVO
    • AstroGrid
    • Australia-VO
    • BRAVO
    • China-VO
    • ChiVO
    • CVO
    • Euro-VO
    • ESAVO
    • France VO
    • GAVO
    • HVO
    • VObs.it
    • Japan-VO
    • Ukraine VO
    • USVOA
    • RVO
    • SA^3
    • SVO
    • VO-India
  • Report from the TCG
  • Reports from the WGs

Logistics

TM78 - Tue, 03 July 2018 - 15:00 UTC

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Agenda TM78

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of FM77 and FM77S
3. Review of Exec Actions
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
6. Approval/Feedback of Media Group Charter
7. IAU Update
8. Open IVOA WG/IG nominations
   • Semantics V Chair
   • KDD V Chair
9. CSP
   • Nominations
     • Mark Lacy - NRAO / ALMA (nominated by B Glendenning)
     • Chenzhou's nomination (email out to CCf/BM or name)
   • Membership discussion - a "champion" for science use cases
10. Exec Secretary inputs - change after College Park
11. IVOA web management - single location (FP)
12. IVOA Logo group photo re-design (CC)
13. Formal Body for IVOA
14. Date of next Exec meeting
15. Review of New Action Items
16. AOB

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

• On June 28, 2018, the IAU announced the composition of the new Division Steering Committees (DSC) and Commission Organizing Committees (COC) for the next triennium, as resulted from the recent elections. Chenzhou Cui was elected as the Vice President for Commission B2 (Data & Documentation).
• “Informationization Working Committee” is under building. The proposal was submitted by the China-VO to the Chinese Astronomical Society (CAS) in 2017 and was approved by its standing committee.

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

ESAVO

France VO

GAVO

HVO

Japan-VO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Vo-India

Vobs.it

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

Project report for NAVO

The NAVO registry has now implemented support for ISO Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and a number of NAVO services have already had these added. DOI's make it easier for researchers to credit and reference VO-related resources.

The HEASARC has fully released and validated coordinated TAP and DataLink services which provide access to all of the table and mission holdings of the HEASARC. VO-enabled tools, e.g., TOPCAT, can have comprehensive access to HEASARC holdings entirely through VO protocols.

The NAVO Python Working Group has issued its first pull request against the Astroquery library, a critical first step in establishing a NAVO role in supporting this community-driven effort to develop powerful standardized libraries to access astronomy data archives. This builds upon efforts at recent AAS and IVOA meetings.

The paper Berriman, et al., "A Study of the Efficiency of Spatial Indexing Methods Applied to Large Astronomical Databases," Submitted for publication in the Proceedings of ADASS XXVII, Santiago, Chile (2017), has been posted on Arxiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08866. Submission to a peer-reviewed journal is anticipated later this year.

As scheduled, support for the legacy VAO closeout repository will end this month. This repository holds copies of the documentation and software releases of the VAO prgram. While the repository will not be actively deleted, no further maintenance is planned and users will be pointed to more up to date sites of NAVO, the IVOA and the USVOA. The end-of-life plan for the USVAO website is being finalized with support terminating at the end of this fiscal year. The original NAVO proposal had mandated support through at least the end of FY 2017.

A special NAVO workshop was held at the AAS in Denver to demonstrate how scientists and developers can use Python to access our archival data -- typically hiding the crucial VO underpinnings in a scientist-friendly software library. Despite the smaller size of the summer AAS meetings, compared to our first workshop in January the meeting packed the room in which it was presented with about 40 people present. Having doubled the planned attendance for this meeting, we anticipate substantially increasing the size before the January 2019 meeting in Seattle and continuing these workshops as a regular event.

A substantially revised NAVO web site was released for the AAS meeting. The new web site (at https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/vo/summary ) is still under intensive development, but is intended to support the distinct interests of scientists and developers. In particular, the site provides links to the Python notebooks that we are developing for the scientist community including the notebook used in our workshops and more detailed workbooks for each center.

Report from the TCG