IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM47)Thursday December 13 @ 16.00 UT (17.00 CET)Contents LogisticsTeleconAgenda TM47
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> > | The Euro-VO Science Advisory Committee met in Paris on Nov. 23rd to discuss in particuular CoSADIE work programme. The CoSADIE project organizes a School on scientific usage of the VO in Madrid, 2013, Feb. 5-7 (http://www.laeff.cab.inta-csic.es/projects/cosadie/main/index.php). It is expected to gather mainly PhD students and post-docs working in European countries. A Technology Forum will also be organized in Edinburgh in the coming months to discuss progress and collaborations on VO technical matters. A Data Centre Forum will be organised in Heidelberg in June 2013. Preparation for the kick-off of the Research Data Alliance continues, with in particular a Workshop organized in Amsterdam by the European e-Infrastructure Reflexion Group on Nov. 3-4 (http://www.e-irg.eu/e-irg-events/workshop-3-4-december.html). F. Genova presented a contribution on "Lessons learnt from building the International Virtual Observatory" in a Working Group devoted to discuss RDA governance. | |||||||
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> > | Working Groups of the France VO Specifc Action continued to organize meetings, with topics which take into account its multi-disciplinary coverage. A very well attended meeting was organised to discuss "New interfaces and new interactions" on Nov. 26th (http://www.france-ov.org/twiki/bin/view/GROUPEStravail/InterfacesInteractionsMeeting1) in Paris (IAP). The Workflow Working Group met in Meudon (Observatoire de Paris) on Nov. 29th ((http://www.france-ov.org/twiki/bin/view/GROUPEStravail/WorkflowReunion8, with among the topics PDL, AstroTaverna, Wf4Ever, workflows in HELIO and Europlanet and in VAMDC. The annual meeting of the "OV-Planeto" Working Group will be held on Dec. 10th in Paris (Paris Observatory). | |||||||
GAVOHVOVObs.itJapan-VOUkraine VOVAORVOSouth Africa VOSVO(Since Oct 2012) Manpower: 10 FTEs. The SVO Thematic Network (people from Spanish institutes with interest in the VO) is composed of almost 200 participants from more than 30 labs. Outreach: - Invited talk at the Spanish meeting of amateur astronomers (http://www.congresoastronomia.es/conferencias.html) Education: - The use case "Distance to the Crab Nebulae" available from the HoU-Spain web page. - Master course at Universidad Complutense de Madrid: "The Virtual Observatory". Oct-Nov 2012VO-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 WGVOTable WGData Curation and Preservation IGEducation IGKnowledge Discovery in Databases IGTime Domain IGTheory IG<--
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