IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM30)

Sunday Oct 26 2008 @ 16.00-18.00 GMT

Logistics

Full Meeting at InterOpOct2008: STScI Cafeteria Conference room

STScI building, 3700 San Martin Drive, across the street from the JHU Physics Department (Bloomberg building). Being a Sunday the Institute will be locked, but there is a guard at the front desk who will let you in. They will be aware of the meeting and can direct you to the Cafeteria Conference Room. To get to the "CafCon" you enter the STScI lobby, go to your right beyond the doors to the auditorium, down the hall into the cafeteria, and cross the cafeteria to the far side at the right. There is a short corridor and just off that corridor you will find the CafCon on your left.

Agenda

Final - 20081019

1. Roll Call and Agenda ­ NW
2. Minutes of TM 29
3. Project Reports ­ Significant Events Only
4. Review of Action Items ­ NW
5. Approval of New IVOA Recommendations ­ Standing Item
6. Notes from the LOC – BH
7. WG and IG Updates ­ CA
8. TCG Status and Review of Roadmap – CA
9. Informal/Exec Committees DDY
   • Liaison Group - DDY
   • Take Up Group - DDY
   • Report of IVOA Newsletter – MA, DDY
10. Prospective New Members – Update – DDY
11. Report of Standards Committee – FG
12. Spring 2009 Interop Venue and Planning - DDY, FG
13. Autumn 2009 Interop Venue and Planning
14. Date of Next Exec Meeting
15. AOB
16. Review of New Action Items

Reports from the Projects

ArVO

AstroGrid (VOTC:UK) - UK

Australia-VO

China-VO

CVO - Canada

Euro-VO

As part of the EURO-VO AIDA project, a workshop "Multiwavelength Astronomy and the VO" will be organized at ESAC on 01-03 December 2008.

France VO

GAVO - Germany

HVO - Hungary

Japan-VO

Korean VO

NVO - USA

RVO - Russia

SVO - Spain

VO-India

VObs.it - Italy

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

Activities since Trieste have focused on discussions and preparations for VOEvent v2.0. Intent is to move this to proposed recommendation stage in coordination with the VOEvent IV workshop at UCSC at the end of April 2009.

VOEvent v2.0 will include support for the representation of time series and orbital elements, for improved references to external URIs of various types, for explicitly referencing external schemata in support of non-native event streams, and for a controlled vocabular(ies) based on the excellent work of the semantics WG. In addition, the WG is investigating different options for authentication via digital signing technologies.

As separate initiatives that will likely result in distinct proposed recommendations, the WG is discussing the Simple Event Access Protocol (SEAP) and Registry support for servers serving streams of scientifically related VOEvent packets. These efforts are not currently scheduled, but one would anticipate significant progress over roughly the next year.

The VOEvent WG continues to pursue collaboration with several extra-IVOA entities, particularly including the internationally sited Heterogeneous Telescope Networks (HTN) consortium and NASA's Gamma-ray bursts Coordinates Network (GCN). We are aggressively pursuing additional event streams, for instance, events resulting from the upcoming Dark Energy Survey to be conducted with the very wide field DECam at the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope.

In addition to VOEvent sessions and joint sessions at the Baltimore Interop, WG personnel will be presenting at the ADASS Sky/WWT tutorial and at the ADASS BOF, "Architectures for Time Domain Astronomy". Several ADASS contributions derive from VOEvent technologies and projects.

VOQL WG

VOTable WG

Astro-RG IG

Data Curation and Preservation IG

Theory IG

Stds & Process