IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM31)Weds Feb 18 2009 @ 18.00-19.30 GMTLogisticsTelecon:Agenda
Reports from the ProjectsArVOAstroGridAustralia-VOChina-VOCVOEuro-VOThe EuroVO-DCA Coordination Action of the Sxth Framework Programme has been closed on 31 December 2008, after 28 months of successful activities, in particular the organisation of Workshops (two Data Centre Workshops, organised at ESA and ESO respectively, and two companion Euro-VO Theory and Grid Workshops), the production of a Census of European Data Centres, of a medium-term strategy document for the data centre alliance, of a document on the "Framework for inclusion of Theory data and services in the VO", which reports in particular on the work accomplished on theory-related standards, sucessful activities for coordination with the computational Grid, and intense activity in support of data centres in other European countries. The final documents of the project (census, medium term strategy and framework for theory) will be made available after the final project review. The EuroVO-AIDA project is continuing its activities. Among the highlights:
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> > | The Action Spécifique Observatoirs Virtuels France (ASOV, which is the F-VO) held it annual meeting in Paris 12-13 November 2008, followed by a day devoted to splinter meetings on 'software bricks for the VO', Workflows, and Planetary Sciences. The meeting has as usual ilusstrated the different strands of work in France: Working groups on specific topics (e.g. Theory, which has been working in close collaboration with the relevant activity of EuroVO-DCA; Planetary sciences, which is now strongly linked to the Europlanet project; Workflow; Grid), VO implementation by laboratories, technical work on VO standards and support to implementation (SAMP, registry). | ||||||||||||
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> > | Active participation in Euro-VO projects (EuroVO-DCA, EuroVO-AIDA, VO-TECH), has continued, with other European projects emerging as powerful drivers for national activities in planetary studies (Europlanet), solar physics (HELIO). Another emerging subject is databases and services for astrochemistry. An EGEE tutorial has been organised in Meudon on 10-12 December 2008, with ASOV support. A Workflow workshop was held in Paris on 14 January 2009, and a meeting of the Geodesy and Fundamental Astronomy Working Group on 5 December 2008 in Paris. French VO teams continue to participate actively in the development of the IVOA standards, with significant participation in the Baltimore Interoperability meeting. CDS will organise the next Interoperability meeting in Strasbourg (24-29 May 2009). | ||||||||||||
GAVOHVOJapan-VOKorean VONVORVOSVOVObs.itVO-IndiaReports from WGs & IGs(follows order as at http://www.ivoa.net/forum/)Applications WGData Access Layer WGData Models WGGrid and Web Services Working GroupRegistry WGSemantics/UCD WGVOEventVOQL WGVOTable WGAstro-RG IGData Curation and Preservation IGTheory IG | |||||||||||||
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> > | The RFC on the updated IVOA Documents standard (V1.1) brought numerous comments, and the document was reversed to Working Draft. The new version (V1.2, i.e. WD-DocStd-1.2-20090114.html), is posted for two weeks and a new formal RFC will be open at the beginning of March.
In particular, the Documents standard has been merged with the IVOA Note "Guidelines and Procedures for IVOA Document Standards Management V1.0", and the document numbering schema has been updated, after a lively discussion within the TCG.
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-- NicholasWalton - 14 Feb 2009
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