IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM38)

Monday December 6 @ 17.00-19.00

Supplementary: Thursday December 9 @ 12.30-14.00

Logistics

Monday meeting in the Asu-nara Room, Nikko Nara Hotel

Thursday meeting in Room 4 Nara Prefecture New Public Hall

DRAFT Agenda FM38

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of TM37
3. Status of Actions
4. Project Reports - Significant Events Only
5. Report of the TCG meeting and TCG status
6. Reports by WGs - WG Chairs
7. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
8. Inactive IVOA members (PP)
9. Possible new IVOA members (PP)
10. IVOA Interops: attendance and frequency (all)
11. IVOA basic standards: what's still missing? (all)
12. Proposal for an IVOA Education Interest Group (all)
13. Data center review of IVOA standards (BH, all)
14. Future Interops (FP, AK)
15. Date of next meeting (TM39)
16. AOB
17. Summary of Actions

Reports from the Projects

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

CVO

Euro-VO

ESO-VO

ESAVO

France VO

GAVO

HVO

Japan-VO

VAO

RVO

SVO

VObs.it

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

VOTable WG

Data Curation and Preservation IG

Knowledge Discovery in Databases IG

Theory IG

The Theory IG activity has been focused on the Simulation Data Model and the Simulation Data Access Layer.

1. An intermediate meeting opened to all people willing to actively contribute to Theory standards has been organised in Strasbourg on Sep 16-17. Attendees were : Cervino, Derriere, Gheller, Gray, Lemson, Le Petit, Manzato, Moreau, Ooghe, Rodrigo, Wozniak. Several actions have then started or have been completed since then:
2. the Note explaining the Simulation Data Model (SimDM) has been completed. Discussion within the Strasbourg attendees has started on Nov 15. The Note has been released on the Theory IG on Nov 24 for comments. It will be updated according to the Theory list inputs.
3. this SimDM Note has been sent to DM list by DM WG chair for additional discussion on Nov 29. The SimDM specification process will be launched after Nara under the auspices of the DM WG.
4. A Note on SimDM implementation examples (Le Petit et al.) has been released and distributed for comments on the Theory and DM lists.
5. all documents (specification, XML schemas, etc.) needed for the SimDM specification has been prepared and will be updated according to the results of the discussions. All documents are on Volute and easily accessible through a dedicated page (cf. Theory wiki pages). http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IVOATheorySimDMspec
6. the SimDM will be presented during a DM WG session in Nara
7. the SimDAL specification is in preparation. A discussion about a TAP implementation on SimDM (SimTAP) has started in Strasbourg and will continue in Nara during a Theory session and a DAL one. The aim is to be ready by Napoli INTEROP.