IVOA Technical Coordination Meeting

May 14-15, 2010: Victoria, Canada

Local Arrangements

Recommended Reading

1. Documents relevant to the architecture and science case discussions
   • Virtual Observatory Architecture Overview 2004
   • The IVOA in 2009: Technical Assessment and RoadMap
   • Science Requirements and IVOA Standards 2009
   • EuroVO Reference Architecture 2009
   • [[][List of Recommended Standards]]
   • [[][List of Standards under development]]
2. Documents relevant to the TCG organization discussion
   • Charter for the IVOA Technical Coordination Group
   • Document Standards Management: Guidelines and Procedures

Meeting Objectives

1. Review and update IVOA top level architecture (Sessions 1-3)
   1. Two views required: one for public consumption (Level 0) and another to serve the needs of the WGs/IGs (Level 1)
2. For each existing IVOA standard,
   1. determine where it fits in the IVOA top level architecture (Sessions 1-3)
   2. determine if a minor update is required wrt general introduction and situation within the IVOA top level architecture (Session 4)
   3. determine if a major update is required to reflect current IVOA status (Session 4)
3. For each upcoming IVOA standard
   1. indicate general introduction and where it fits in the IVOA top level architecture (Sessions 1-3)
   2. determine WGs that should be involved in writing this standard (Session 4)
4. Based on Science use cases delivered by the IVOA Committee on Science Priorities
   1. determine which IVOA standards would be required to address these (Sessions 5–7)
   2. determine priority amongst various on-going IVOA standards (Sessions 5–7)
   3. determine WGs that should be involved in writing these standards (Sessions 5–7)
5. TCG organization (Session 8)
   1. how to handle Validation and Verification? (Session 8)
   2. do we need to update the TCG charter? (Session 8)
   3. do we need to update the IVOA Document Standard? (Session 8)
   4. do we need to update the WG/IG chair "induction package"? (Session 8)

Participants