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IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM84)

FM84 - May 12 2019 - 4-6pm local time - Salle du Conseil

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Draft Agenda FM84

  1. Roll Call and Agenda
  2. Minutes of TM83
  3. Review of Exec Actions
  4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
  5. Overall TCG Status
  6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
  7. Overall CSP Status
  8. Review terms up for expiration in May
    • DataModel : Mark Cresitello-Dittmar - Ch (no ext.), Laurent Michel (no ext.)
    • GWS: Brian Major - Ch (no ext.), Giuliano Taffoni - VCh (no ext.)
    • Semantics: Mireille Louys - Ch (no ext.)
    • Theory: Carlos Rodrigo (1 yr. ext.)
    • Ops: Tom McGlynn - Ch (no ext.), Mark Taylor (no ext.)
    • Time Domain : D. Morris - VCh (1 yr. ext.)
  9. Requested item - Common Archive Observation Model - David Schade
  10. Future Interops
  11. AOB
  12. Date of next Exec meeting
  13. Review of New Action Items

Reports from the Projects

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

China-VO Highlights in FY2018 (InterOpMay2018 to InterOpMay2019)

Communities and Involvement

  • Nov. 2018, the China-VO and Astroinformatics 2018 was held successfully in Jingdezhen, more than 170 persons attended the event.
  • Dec. 2018, the Proposal of Informatization Working Committee (IWCC) of Chinese Astronomical Society was approved.
  • Apr. 2019, at the ACAMAR 5 (Australia-China Consortium for Astrophysical Research), Chenzhou gave a talk about IVOA.
  • Under the name of EduIG and IAU DAEPO WG
  • IAU GA30 Vienna
  • WG renew application
  • IAUS 358 Astronomy for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion — a roadmap to action within the framework of the IAU 100th Anniversary
  • Data-driven EPO session @ CODATA Beijing 2019
  • Data-driven EPO session @ Scientific Data Conference 2019
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Data Releases and Open Access
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  • Jul. 2018, LAMOST DR4 released globally, which was included by VizieR in Sep. 2019
  • May. 2018, AST3 ( Three Antarctic Survey Telescopes) DR1 released
  • Apr. 2018, GAIA DR2 was mirrored in China by China-VO
System Development
  • May 2019, China-VO Paperdata, a journal paper data repository, upgraded with VOSpace and DOI implementations, and linked with China-VO Registry. (http://paperdata.china-vo.org/)
  • May 2019, China-VO WWT 2.0 released with HiPS implementation and enhanced VR and Microsoft Kinect support. Dozens of HiPS datasets, including Chang’e-II 7m lunar global data, are accessible from the new version. (http://wwt.china-vo.org)
Contests and Trainings
  • Feb. 2018, LAMOST dataset was used in the Alibaba AI contest.
  • Mar. 2019, PSP dataset was used in the Futurelab AI contest.
  • Aug. 2018, WWT Teacher training 2018 in Tsingtao.
  • Jul. 2018, The 2nd East Asian Workshops on Astrostatistics & R were held in Nanjing and Guiyang. A total of 129 participants from 28 astronomical research institutes of China, Japan, Vietnam and Mongolia attended to the workshop.
Awards and Honors
  • In Oct. 2018, Chinese Astronomical Data Center (CAsDC) passed WDS&RDA CoreTrustSeal Certification.
  • Jun. 2018, Chenzhou Cui was elected as the vice president of IAU Commission B2.
  • Dec. 2018, "WWT Planetarium based on the big data of Virtual Observatory" submitted by China-VO, won the FDSTMC (Foundation for the Development of Science and Technology Museums in China ) Nomination Award.
  • Apr. 2019, LAMOST Data Release System was awarded as Best-practice of Chinese Academy of Sciences e-Science project.

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

Euro-VO partners have been active in the past period in particular with the overlap of the ASTERICS project (ended April 2019) and the ESCAPE project (started February 2019).

The ASTERICS project held a number of events in the last 6 months of the project:

There were 3 extra associated events connected to the Technology forum:
  • Extra event: EST (European Solar Telescope) and the VO, 26 February
  • Extra event: Radio Astronomy and the VO, 28 February
  • Project meeting: ASTERICS Multi-messenger Platform, 28 February

The ESCAPE project began with a kick-off meeting, and is currently in the preliminary 6 month “ramp-up” phase.

CDS - A major upgrade of the main CDS data server is in progress, the CDS “All-Sky-Data” project (~1.4 Pb) which will include the CDS HiPS node.

Contributions at ADASS2018 (http://adass2018.umd.edu/) include tutorials and presentations focused on VO

ESAVO

France VO

GAVO

HVO

Japan-VO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Vo-India

Vobs.it

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

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  Science Policy: G. Fabbiano coordinated USVOA white paper effort for the US 2020 Decadal: Review. Six white papers were developed discussing exploration (including multi-wavelength archival exploration) as a major source of scientific discovery, and submitted to the various science topic sub-committees. These white papers discuss important unanticipated discoveries, and advocate support for data management, software and archive interoperability. A collation of the white papers can be seen at https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06634

Chandra Source Catalog 2 (CSC2): All data for the second version of the Chandra Source: Catalog (CSC 2.0) have been processed. Final release of CSC 2.0 is scheduled for summer 2019. IVOA service access to catalog data is planned. CSC2 data visualization is implemented using WWT.

Chandra HIPS: Developed and Implemented a pipeline using HIPSGen on Public Chandra Archive data (1999-Mar2018); Coordinated with ESA to include Chandra HIPS in Integration version of ESASky for review and test; After round of testing we will re-generate the HIPS files (found one issue so far) with a End of May release date expected. Presentation planned for Interop.

New Multi-messenger VO services: Implemented ObjVisSAP v0.4 & ObsLocTAP v0.4 for Chandra: New Protocols for standardizing Observation Visibility and Planning information; Coordinated with Jan-Uwe Ness and group at ESA for early implementation of working draft standard. Released service and currently working 1st round of feedback before announcing more widely. Presentation planned for Interop.

RofR: Implementing upgrades based on discussions in College Park MD; Work on automating registry validation notification reports/emails from the RofR website; Harvested and manually replaced registry resources for the RofR. Planning status presentation at Interop.


DM: Significant effort in the Coordinates, Transforms, and Measurements Data models (Formally one model called STC) to bring to Standards WD process level. All 3 models will be at a mature Working Draft (WD) level going into the May Interop.

Data Curation and Preservation: developed a plan for the transition of the Chandra Data Archive to DOIs as persistent identifiers for Chandra data products (from single observations to aggregated datasets), Chandra Source Catalog(s) and data collection associated to publications. This plan covers the rule for metadata population, relational identifiers, update triggers and landing pages. Raffaele will give a status report presentation at InterOp.

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NAVO highlights (BB):

- Science White Papers: Preparing to submit state of the profession white papers, which will advocate for the VO (due July 1).

- The paper "Deep Learning for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics: A Gateway for Discovery in the Big Data Era”, submitted by invitation as an Expert Recommendation in Nature Reviews Physics, advocated the value of the VO in data discovery. (Bruce Berriman co-author)

- Hosted two sessions at the 233rd AAS Meeting in Seattle, WA, Jan 2019:

--Workshop Using Python to Search NASA's Astrophysics Archives

-- Special Session: Astrophysics Archives in the 2020s.

- Plan to hold a NAVO Python tutorial at 235th AAS Meeting in Honolulu, HI, January 2020.

- AstroData2020s Science Workshop at IPAC (December 2018) hosted at IPAC attended by NAVO staff and explicitly called out the value of the VO.

- Staff attended the Common Archive Observation Model (CAOM) workshop held at CADC in Victoria, Canada.

- Continue to work with the Astropy community in developing standardized Python interfaces. Our initial effort has been to provide a simple, intuitive tool to access the VO registry.

- Continue to offer new services and data sets, including: HEASARC updated Xamin to use NAVO registry to discover remote sources dynamically. This new version of Xamin incorporates DataLink internally in providing access to HEASARC data products.

- IRSA released NEOWISE -R catalog with 95 billion row tables.

- With the recent release of PanSTARRS and impending release of ZTF data, NAVO archives are providing extremely large optical data sets presaging the flood of data anticipated with LSST. These provide datasets for the VO to work with in defining and adopting the standards needed to promote interoperable science on data of these scales.

- Support for HiPS being built into Montage image mosaic engine (presentation at this meeting).

LSST highlights (GD/TJ):

o Taking a "VO-first" apprach to providing LSST data access Wed services.

o Taken the OPENCADC TAP server code and are adapting it to work with the LSST Qserv parallel database.

- Currently translating a subset of ADQL to the Qserv SQL dialect; This service is running in front of an O(80B row) test dataset in our data access center prototype; Work is continuing on extending the range of ADQL that is supported; Contributing work upstream as appropriate and look forward to an ongoing collaboration.

* Will soon be using this server to run an ObsTAP service.
* Testing this service with PyVO and astroquery.utils.tap and are/will be providing feedback, including PRs.
* Developed a Python SODA service implementation that works with the LSST Python science pipeline code base to perform its image cutout operations.
* In the midst of deploying integrated single-sign-on for all the components of the LSST Science Platform (LSP)
- Based on OAuth2 technology; A single login provides access to:
+ The LSP Portal Aspect web GUI, based on Firefly;
+ The LSP Notebook Aspect, based on JupyterLab;
+ Data services, currently including SODA and shortly to include the CADC-based TAP service; and
+ A user workspace via WebDAV (and eventually via VOSpace as well).
- Working on easing the integration of the authorization tokens from our SSO system into Python API calls to our data services, i.e., via PyVO and astroquery.utils.tap.
+ Look forward to detailed discussions and work in this area at the hack sessions in Paris.
- We are interested in discussing standardization of A&A interactions with community tools such as TOPCAT and Aladin Desktop.
* We will be looking at adopting community VOSpace implementations, including CADC’s new POSIX-based server
* We have developed a Firefly-based Web front end to TAP queries.
- Tested this with our TAP server as well as with numerous community services (IRSA, NED, CADC, MAST, Gaia, GAVO, …); Making heavy use of TAP_SCHEMA metadata to allow this portal to display data as specified by the publisher; Special capabilities are included for supporting ObsTAP image metadata queries; We are starting work on supporting DataLink-based behavior.
* We have worked with STScI, JCMT, and Mark C-D on the STC transforms data model to ensure that it's compatible with current implementations.

 

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