IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM23)

Sunday May 13 2007 @ 17.30-20.00 (Beijing Local Time)

Logistics

Full Meeting: Floor 2, Meeting Room 5 (Beijing Oriental Culture Hotel, Beijing, China)

Agenda

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of TM22
3. Review of Actions
4. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [standing item]
5. Discussion of the IVOA Assessment (FG/DDY)
6. Working Groups and Interest Groups
   • Standardisation process: highlights, concerns, goals (RW)
   • Proposal for creation of Solar System IG
7. Status of the Assessment of Implementation of IVOA standards in Data Centres (DS/CA)
8. Status of the preparation of the Fall 2007 Interoperability meeting (NW)
9. Status of the preparation of the Spring 2008 Interoperability meeting (FP)
10. Data and venue of the next Exec meeting
11. AOB
12. Summary of Actions

Reports from the Projects

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

China-VO

CVO

VObs.it (aka DRACO) Italy

Euro-VO

France VO

GAVO

HVO

Japan-VO

Korean VO

NVO

RVO

SVO

VO-India

Reports from WGs & IGs(follows order as at http://www.ivoa.net/forum/)

Data Access Layer WG

Data Models WG

Grid and Web Services Working Group

Registry WG

Semantics/UCD WG

VOEvent

VOQL WG

VOTable WG

Applications IG

Astro-RG IG

A very successful workshop was held at OGF 20, Manchester, UK (9 May 2007). Details of the agenda are at IVOA.GgfIvoaMay07WorkShop and the presentation materials linked from the OGF20 schedule page. It is apparent that there is increasing interest in the use of distributed computing infrastructure, and that there is activity outside of the IVOA in this area. The IVOA Astro-RG Interest Group is a good forum to allow more engagement with large external groups such as LOFAR/ SKA who may need to integrate their grid based computational systems to the VO.

Data Curation and Preservation IG

Theory IG