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IVOA Standing Committee on Science Priorities (CSP)

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The IVOA recognizes that sustaining the scientific impact of the VO as an interoperable ecosystem to support science requires continuous engagement of the international astronomical community. The astronomy community comprises missions that are active or under development, operating observatories, astronomical archives, and teams of astronomers performing research and disseminating data products to the community. The primary goal of the CSP is to support the Executive Committee in its goal of sustaining the VO's impact, as follows:

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Advise the Executive Committee on strategies for engaging the astronomical community as a participant in the Virtual Observatory.
Demonstrate to the community the benefits of participation in the IVOA, such as growth in the scientific return of data; the capability to discover and fuse multiple data sets; the application of the VO in planning new observations and observing strategies.
Recommend scientific priorities and scientific requirements that will drive the development of new services, protocols and tools, which will be developed by the IVOA and coordinated by the TCG. These priorities should be driven by scientific use cases that are developed in cooperation with the scientific community.
Support the TCG in the development of protocols to ensure they meet the actual scientific requirements
Support VO members in developing tutorials, workshops and scientific training materials.

The Chair, Vice Chair and membership of the CSP will be determined by the IVOA Exec. The Chair of the IVOA TCG shall be a members ex-officio of the CSP. The Chair and Vice Chair of the CSP are members ex-officio of the TCG. The nominal term for Chair and Vice Chair of the CSP is expected to be 3 years. It is expected that the CSP will be consisted largely of members of the science community and active astronomy projects. The Chair of the Committee has the responsibility to coordinate the activities and to report to the Executive.

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The Virtual Observatory (VO) is designed to enable new scientific research via interoperability of astronomy resources (data and software) around the world. Scientific prioritisation of IVOA activities is essential to ensure that the development and operations of the Virtual Observatory (VO) are relevant to the research needs of the astronomy community. The primary objective of this Committee is to identify the high level scientific requirements for the VO of major astronomy projects and of the wider astronomy community as input to the setting of priorities for IVOA. The Committee's activities around the collection of requirements are intended to provide a high level entry point for major astronomy projects to interact with IVOA, and are also intended to foster the concept of major astronomy projects being “participants in”, rather than “customers of” the IVOA.

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The Committee will take action within the context of the IVOA to enable the use of the VO by the research community. The Committee will consult as widely as needed, in particular to gather of use cases and requirements from major astronomy projects. The Committee is expected to develop plans to vigorously encourage the creation and implementation of infrastructure, services and tools, and other activities. Such plans are expected to include the definition of ‘minimal requirements’, and the identification of CSP member(s) who will ‘champion’ priority topics. These plans, after endorsement by the Executive, will be carried out in close collaboration with the TCG. It is likely that such activities will often draw upon the expertise of several Working Groups or Interest Groups. Monitoring of the progress of tasks and related Working Group tasks will be done in liaison with the TCG with regular reporting to the Executive. Any resources required for Committee activities will be negotiated among the relevant parties on a case by case basis.

Composition:

The membership and internal governance of this Committee will be determined by the Chair of the IVOA Exec in consultation with the Chairs of the IVOA TCG, the IVOA Exec Vice-Chair, and others as needed. The Chair of the IVOA TCG shall be a member ex-officio of this Committee. The nominal term for members of the CSP is expected to be 3 years. It is expected that the CSP will include scientists associated with IVOA member projects, and (at least two) scientists associated with major astronomy projects. The Chair of the Committee has the responsibility to coordinate the activities and to report to the Executive.

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Bruno Merin (Chair)

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Bruno Merin

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Vandana Desai
Ada Nebot(Chair)

Current Projects

Project	Status/notes
Time Series	Use cases focus sessions collected for May 2013 interop Coordination with Time Domain Interest Group	Use Case development page (To be reviewed 2016)
Multi-dimensional Data	Use cases collected for focus sessions for May 2013 interop	Use Case development page (next steps to be defined 2016)
	Follow-up Focus Session on Multi-dimensional Data were held in May 2014	InterOpMay2014MultiD
	Standards for Multi-d data access close to convergence (SIA v2.0, AccessData/SODA v1.0, DataLink v1.0, ObsCore v1.0)	Aim for 1st set of multi-d standards finalised early 2016
	Focus Session on “Interoperability of data from major astronomy projects” at the May 2016 IVOA Interoperability Meeting	IVOA_Project_Survey.pdf: Survey version 21 Oct 2016

Meeting notes

Date	Notes
September 12, 2017	Minutes
November 9, 2018	Minutes
December 17th, 2018	Minutes

Past Projects:

Project	Coordinator

ObsTap	David Schade
SED Builder	Evanthia Hatziminaoglou and Paolo Padovani
Search for Classes/List of Objects	Mark Allen
Radioastronomy in the VO	Radio Astronomy

Previous Committee Members

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