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IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM25)

Thurs 27 Sept 2007 @ 16.45-18.30 GMT

Contents

Logistics

Location: Hoyle Committee Room, IoA, Cambridge, UK - see InterOpSep2007

Agenda (draft 20070917)

Roll Call and Agenda
Minutes of TM24
Review of Actions
Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
Working Groups and Interest Groups
- Clarification/Modification of the Standardization process (BH) Process and checklist as discussed in June
- Revival of Standards and Process WG (FG, BH)
- Policy Discussion of WG Transitions to Maintenance Mode (DD)
Status of the Assessment Working Group (DD)
Discussion of Google Sky, the VO, and the IVOA (BH)
IVOA and the next IAU GA (MO, RW)
Discussion of Possible New IVOA Members (FG, RW)
Support of VO Training Programs (BH)
Status of preparation for spring 2008 Interop (FP)
Status and venue for the fall 2008 Interop (BH)
Date and venue of the next Exec meeting
AOB
Summary of Actions

Reports from the Projects

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

China-VO

CVO

VObs.it (aka DRACO) Italy

Euro-VO

The EURO-VO Science Advisory Committee (SAC), which provides scientific advice to the project, met for the third time on June 18 at ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. SAC members were updated on the latest EURO-VO developments. The meeting agenda with all presentations is available at http://www.euro-vo.org/twiki/bin/view/Fc/SacMeeting03.

In the framework of the Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting, JENAM 2007, held in Armenia on August 20-25, a two-day EAS Symposium on "Science with the Virtual Observatories" took place (http://www.aras.am/JENAM-2007/EASsymp08.htm). EURO-VO astronomers participated with various invited talks.

The workshop "Astronomy with Virtual Observatories", which will see an active participation of EURO-VO scientists, is to be held in October in Pune, India. For more details see http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/~voiwork/

Negociation on the project 'Euro-VO Astronomical Infrastructure for Data Access' (EuroVO-AIDA) have been opened by the European Commission by the end of July. The project had been submitted in the frame of the first 'Scientific Data Repositories' of the 7th Framework Program. The outcome of negociations should be known soon.

France VO

France VO teams have been actively preparing the Cambridge Interoperability meeting (21 French participants will attend the meeting, from Besancon, Lyon, Marseille, Paris and Strasbourg Observatories and from the Service d'Aeronomie.

The French VO WG and IG chairs and vice-chairs also actively participated in the evaluation of the Proposed Recommendations during the Summer period.

GAVO

HVO

Japan-VO

Korean VO

NVO

NVO team members D. Tody and J. McDowell completed their terms as chairs of the IVOA Data Access Layer Working Group and Data Models Working Group, respectively. M. Graham has been appointed as chair of the Grid and Web Services Working Group, and R. Hanisch has been appointed as chair of the Data Curation and Preservation Interest Group.

E. Schreier and R. Moore have resigned from the NVO Executive Committee, and G. Fabbiano and T. McGlynn have agreed to replace them. Pepi and Tom bring extensive experience from the perspective data center operations.

The NVO data discovery portal tiger team has been working to refine the requirements and develop a design for a new primary interface to VO resources. Our goal is to make this interface available to the user community in January 2008.

Much effort has gone into the NVO Book, a compendium of lectures and tutorials from the NVO Summer Schools and other background materials. The book should be ready to send to the publisher, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, by the end of July.

R. Hanisch submitted a proposal for a session about Virtual Observatories and Internet-enabled research collaboratories to the AAAS annual meeting (Boston, February 2008). This proposal was accepted.

The complete report of NVO activities for the period April-June 2007 is available at http://www.us-vo.org/pubs/files/FY07Q3.pdf.

RVO

SVO

VO-India

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

Applications WG

Data Access Layer WG

Data Models WG

Grid and Web Services Working Group

Registry WG

Semantics/UCD WG

VOEvent

VOQL WG

VOTable WG

Astro-RG IG

Data Curation and Preservation IG

The DCP IG will meet during the Cambridge Interop, and will begin with brief presentations on the status of DCP activities in the US and Europe. Then the floor will be open for discussion of the challenges facing such efforts and the role the IVOA might play in supporting this important work. See InterOpSep2007CP for the agenda and IvoaCP for the IG twiki page.