InterOpNov2025Ops < IVOA

---+ Operations Interest Group Session at the November 2025 Interop, Görlitz, Germany
---+ <span data-mce-mark="1" style="color: #000000; font-size: small;">Saturday November 15 2025 11:00-12:30</span><span data-mce-mark="1" style="color: #000000; font-size: small;">, Room: Wichernhaus "nadir"</span>

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<strong>Ops Session 11:00 - 12:30<br /></strong>

| *Speaker* | *Title* | *Time* | *Material* |
| Henrik Norman | <p> *Improving the data access services in the VO ecosystem (Euro-VO Weather Report)* </p> <p>In an ongoing push to improve the data access services in the VO ecosystem, I’ve contacted more than 50 data providers and asked them to address specific issues with their services. The VO community has answered and is improving its services at an unprecedented rate. I will present the status of this effort and the overall health of the VO ecosystem.</p> | 15'+5' | <a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpNov2025Ops/20251115-Euro-VO_Registry-WeatherReport.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a> |
| Anastasia Laity | <p> *IRSA VO accomplishments in 2025 - and what's next?* </p> <p>In 2025, IRSA developed tools to support Euclid QR1 and SPHEREx weekly quick releases utilizing VO protocols and models. We also released a beta version of ObsTAP, serving a subset of our available data collections and utilizing our new DataLink service. We'll discuss what went well and what posed challenges, as well as what's planned for 2026.</p> | 7'+2' | <a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpNov2025Ops/IVOA_Nov2025_Ops_Laity.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a> |
| Rach Bhatawdekar | <p> *ESDC Statistics and LLM Crawlers* </p> <p>The talk will provide an overview of usage statistics for ESA’s archive services, highlighting patterns observed in automated access, including activity likely associated with LLM-driven crawlers, and open a discussion on these trends with the community.</p> | 15'+5' | <a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpNov2025Ops/Rach_Bhatawdekar_EsdcStatisticsLLMCrawlers.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a> |
| Tamara Civera | <p> *Managing automated access: Experience from Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ)* </p> <p>The <a href="https://oajweb.cefca.es/" target="_blank" title="Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ)">Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ)</a> provides open astronomical data services that may be accessed by both human and automated clients. Managing this activity requires balancing accessibility with protection to ensure service reliability. This talk presents OAJ’s experience managing automated access and highlights the importance of community collaboration and adaptive security strategies.</p> | 5'+2' | <a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpNov2025Ops/2025_Nov_IVOAOps_TamaraCivera_ManagingAutomatedAccessOAJ.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a> |
| Gilles Landais | <p><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Managing intense web activities</span></b></p> <p>A brief summary of the increasing activity generated by bots, AI to access CDS services.<br />We will show some statistics (Simbad, VizieR) and report actions we made to manage the harvestings, and the actions we investigate.</p> | 7'+2' | [[%ATTACHURL%/OpsCDSabusiveusers.pdf][pdf]] |
| All | <p> *Discussion:* </p> <ul> <li>Dealing with bots and AI-related bot traffic against VO services</li> <li>Mandatory Authentication: What it means for VO services</li> <li>Providing VO services using cloud-hosted data</li> <li>Others</li> </ul> | 25' | |
Moderators: <a href="SteveGroom" target="_blank">Steve Groom</a>, <a href="TamaraCivera" target="_blank">Tamara Civera</a>

Notetakers: Tamara Civera

*Notes:* [[%ATTACHURL%/OpsSessionNotesNov2025.pdf][OpsSessionNotesNov2025.pdf]]

Attachments

Topic attachments
I	Attachment	History	Action	Size	Date	Who
pdf	20251115-Euro-VO_Registry-WeatherReport.pdf	r1	manage	761.7 K	2025-11-13 - 11:28	HenrikNorman
pdf	2025_Nov_IVOAOps_TamaraCivera_ManagingAutomatedAccessOAJ.pdf	r1	manage	29921.6 K	2025-11-13 - 18:20	TamaraCivera
pdf	IVOA_Nov2025_Ops_Laity.pdf	r1	manage	1386.1 K	2025-11-14 - 09:10	TamaraCivera
pdf	OpsCDSabusiveusers.pdf	r1	manage	1252.8 K	2025-11-14 - 20:03	GillesLandais
pdf	OpsSessionNotesNov2025.pdf	r1	manage	53.9 K	2025-12-11 - 09:44	TamaraCivera
pdf	Rach_Bhatawdekar_EsdcStatisticsLLMCrawlers.pdf	r1	manage	1952.2 K	2025-11-14 - 08:10	RachanaBhatawdekar

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