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IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM129)
Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Time: 13:00 UTC
Zoom Link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62257207376?pwd=h6391EcXq0bPD60OlxjbcouTQ374K1.1
Contents
Agenda
- Roll call and agenda
- IVOA Website [New Standing Item]
- Review and approval of TM127 & TM128 Minutes
- Review of Actions for TM129
- Future Interop meetings
- Northern Fall 2025 - Görlitz (ADASS dates: 9-13 November 2025, Interop held after ADASS)
- Travel and virtual attendance options for USVO
- Northern Spring 2026
- Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
- Overall TCG Status [Standing Item]
- Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
- CSP Report
- Report on the IAU General Assembly/Working Group
- Date of next Exec meeting
- AOB
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- Posting Exec Committee membership roster online
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- Review of new actions
Reports from the Projects
NOVA (Argentina)
ArVO (Armenia)
ASVO (Australia)
BRAVO (Brazil)
China-VO
- A dozen of representatives from China have registered the ADASS and IVOA meetings.
- Organized by China-VO (National Astronomical Data Center), the 1st Citizen Science Summit in Astronomy (CSSA) took place in Dalian, Northeast China, from July 31 to August 1, 2025. The Summit Featured: 4 invited talks, including a virtual keynote by Chris Lintott (founder of Zooniverse) titled “Lessons from the Zooniverse: Citizen Science in the Rubin Observatory Era”, 17 contributed talks, 3 roundtable discussions, and 4 major meeting announcements. The event proved highly productive and successful, with all presentation slides available at “https://nadc.china-vo.org/events/cssa2025/info/131”. Extensive media coverage, including multiple English-language reports, can be found at “https://nadc.china-vo.org/events/cssa2025/info/134”. The summit formally established a working definition of Citizen Science: Citizen Science is a research model where the general public collaborates to address a specific scientific question, aiming to generate scientific outcomes. Or in Chinese: 公众科学是围绕一个具体的科学问题，以产生科学成果为目标，由社会公众协作开展的一种科研模式。
CVO (Canada)
ESA (Europe)
Euro-VO (Europe)
GAVO (Germany)
JVO (Japan)
Kazakhstan VO
NLVO (Netherlands)
OV-France
RVO (Russia)
SA^3 (South Africa)
SKAO (Square Kilometre Array Observatory; Australia & South Africa)
SVO (Spain)
USVOA (United States)
VO-India
VObs.it (Italy)
- Radio obscore extension - continued contribution
- web assets: new server setup with services disentanglement
Report from the TCG
- TCG met 2(+1) times since College Park's Interop
- 26 June: with a wrap up of the June's interop
- (29 July): chat on IG/TCG/CSP connections
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- 28 August: round table highlights in view of Northern Fall Interop
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- 28 August: round table highlights in view of Northern Fall Interop
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- new members welcome
- Radio IG vice role still open, chair will expire (possible extension) May 2026
- REC/EN in progress
- VOEvent-2.1
- RFC closed but waiting last minute implementations
- potential last minute change to registry extension
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- MANGO-1.0 - currently lacking reviews (northern summer break)
- (among) other documents and standards
- vocabularies: calibration levels, object types (ongoing works)
- ObsCore & extensions
- HATS Note and further steps
- trying to involve people in a DM hack-a-thon workshop
- starting steps in a revision of the Documents Standard
- trying to focus more on take-up before REC stage
- new web pages
- should fit in Exec agenda (Media Group connection)
- astronet.ru publishing registry - still open
- next TCG vconf on 25 September: focus on interop's programme
IAU Working Group Report
Report from the CSP |
