IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM40)

Sunday May 15 @ 17.00-19:00 CET

Supplementary: Wednesday May 18 @ 13:00-14.30

Logistics

Sunday meeting at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Via Moiariello 16 Napoli (best way to get there is by taxi)

Wednesday meeting in room TBD at the Interop venue

DRAFT Agenda FM40

1. Roll Call and Agenda (MA)
2. Minutes of TM39 (PP)
3. Review of Actions
4. Project Reports - Significant Events Only
5. Report of the TCG meeting and TCG status (CA)
6. Reports by WGs - WG Chairs
7. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
8. Expiring WG Chairs and vice-Chairs
9. ESO and the VO (FC)
10. CSP review (DDY)
11. Argentina VO (NOVA) status (PT)
12. Australia-VO status (AW)
13. Brasilian VO (BRAVO) status (AC)
14. Large projects and the IVOA (PP, all)
15. Possible new IVOA members (PP)
16. October 2011 Interop (AK)
17. Future Interops (All)
18. Date of next meeting
19. AOB
20. Summary of Actions (MA)

Reports from the Projects

Argentina - NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

No significant update from last time. AstroGrid is no longer funded as an STFC line item, but the code, services and tools remain in use, and many members of the team continue to work on VO related EU or STFC funded projects (VOICE, VAMDC, Topcat) or undertaking VO duties as part of facility and data centre work (VISTA, ALMA, SDO, Gaia). We are exploring methods to formalise the currently loose sense of continuing consortium connections; this may continue the AstroGrid name, or may opt for a deliberate re-branding.

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 RFC period for the Simulation Data Model (http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/viewauth/IVOA/SimRFC/PR-SimulationDataModel-v.1.00-20110428.pdf) has been opened on May 4th by DM Chair, after updates and modifications according to comments on the TIG and DM lists in March-April.

* Discussions on SimDAL, including the TAP implementation, and the SimDB proposal will be resumed at the next INTEROP. These are the main and urgent efforts for the future since SimDM is close to recommendation.