Subject: NVO status report
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:54 AM
From: Robert Hanisch <rjhanisch@worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: "Robert Hanisch" <rjhanisch@worldnet.att.net>
To: Peter Quinn <pjq@eso.org>, <roy@cacr.caltech.edu>, <dtody@nrao.edu>, <jcm@cfa.harvard.edu>, <gtr@ast.cam.ac.uk>, <ael@star.le.ac.uk>, <masatoshi.ohishi@nao.ac.jp>, <francois@newb6.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: 'IVOA' <ivoa@ivoa.net>

Dear Colleagues,

  This is an extract from the current NVO Quarterly Report.  I believe it
summarizes recent NVO activities pretty well.  I am happy to expand on any
issues of interest at the IVOA meeting next week.

Cheers,
Bob


The primary activities in the first quarter of the NVO project's third year
were oriented toward a new set of science demonstration projects that were
succesfully shown at the Atlanta (January 2004) American Astronomical
Society meeting, and toward several key technical development areas:
resource registries, data models, a spectral data access protocol, and
increasing use of grid-based computational resources.  A new collaboration
on public outreach in which a next-generation web browser will provide easy
access to NVO-based content is taking shape, and initial results were also
shown at the Atlanta AAS.  Following a successful VO Software Tutorial held
just prior to the annual Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems
(ADASS) Conference in Strasbourg, France (October, co-organized with IVOA
partners), planning has begun on an NVO Summer School in which we will
provide detailed instruction to astronomers outside the NVO project in how
to use NVO toolkits and build NVO-enabled science applications.  A redesign
of the NVO web site has also been started, changing the orientation to the
astronomer end-user rather than the NVO development team.  We held our
annual review meeting with the NVO Advisory Committee, with initial informal
feedback being very positive.  (A formal report is expected in late
January.)  NVO team members continue working with the International Virtual
Observatory Alliance, leading several IVOA Working Groups, actively
participating in all others, and helping to organize the important
Interoperability Workshops in which technical discussions covering all
aspects of VO development take place.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Quinn" <pjq@eso.org>
To: <roy@cacr.caltech.edu>; <dtody@nrao.edu>; <jcm@cfa.harvard.edu>;
<gtr@ast.cam.ac.uk>; <ael@star.le.ac.uk>; <hanisch@stsci.edu>;
<masatoshi.ohishi@nao.ac.jp>; <francois@newb6.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: "'IVOA'" <ivoa@ivoa.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:58 AM
Subject: Meeting next week


> Dear WG Chairs
>
>     I remind you that I would like to get short written reports (1-2
pages)
> from each WG regarding the status of working group discussions, documents,
> progress since Strasbourg, plans for upcoming documents/standards and
> involvement in January demos. All those WG chairs who are actually in
> Garching for the AVO demos or the IVOA meeting are more than welcome to
> present their reports verbally at the meeting.
>
>         Peter
>
>
>