IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM42)

Sunday October 16 @ 17.00-19:00 Pune

Supplementary: Wednesday October 19 @ 13:00-14.15

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Logistics

The meeting will be held in the Bhaskara 3 Meeting Room at IUCAA.

Transportation will be provided at 16:30 from the Marriott Hotel on Sunday, Oct. 16. A representative from IUCAA will be available in the lobby at the time of departure.

Agenda FM42

1. Roll Call and Agenda (MA)
2. Minutes of TM41 (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. WG Chairs and vice-Chairs with expiring terms
9. IVOA membership application from Ukrainian Virtual Observatory (PP)
10. Possible new IVOA members (PP, AK)
11. The VO in the current global economic situation (PP, All)
12. May 2012 Interop (BH)
13. Future Interops (All)
14. CSP status (MA)
15. Date of next telecon
16. AOB
17. Summary of Actions (MA)

Reports from the Projects

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Argentina - NOVA

NOVA has finally received the funds from Conicet,one of the main research agency. We are installing and testing software to allow uploading data. A national workshop is being planned for next year to introduce users to VO tools. If possible, we will try to synchronize it with the Interop in Brazil, since it needs to be close or simultaneous with the national meeting of the Argentinian Astronomy Society to increase the impact in the local community. NOVa is also in contact with HELIO project to make observations from solar telescopes at CASLEO available.

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ArVO

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AstroGrid

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Australia-VO

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BRAVO

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China-VO

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CVO

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Euro-VO

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ESO-VO

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ESAVO

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France VO

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GAVO

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HVO

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Japan-VO

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VAO

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RVO

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SVO

(Since June 2011)

Manpower: 11 FTEs. The SVO Thematic Network (people from Spanish institutes with interest in the VO) is composed of 177 members in 34 institutes.

New project: SVO has got funds from the Spanish Ministry of Research for the period 2012-2014 (315000 euros).

SVO in Twitter (http://twitter.com/#ObsVirtEsp). In Spanish.

VO-compliance of astronomical archives:

- Official release of the Calar Alto VO archive (http://www.caha.es/the-scientific-archives-of-calar-alto-observatory-a-world-of-discoveries-at-everybody-s-reach.html)

Applications:

- TESELA: a new Virtual Observatory tool to determine blank fields for astronomical observations (Cardiel, Jiménez-Esteban, Alacid, Solano, Aberasturi). Accepted in MNRAS

- VOTA: A Virtual Observatory tool for asteroseismology. 20th Stellar Pulsation. Conf. Series. E. Solano (oral).

VO Science:

- WISE/2MASS-SDSS brown dwarfs candidates using Virtual Observatory tools (Aberasturi, Solano, Martín). Accepted in A&A.

- The Virtual Observatory and Gaia (II Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Gaia Network. E. Solano. Oral presentation.).

- The Virtual Observatory in action. SF2A. Paris. July 2011. E. Solano (invited talk).

- PHA's precovery using the Virtual Observatory. Solar System Exploration. Bilbao. June 2011. E. Solano (oral).

Outreach:

- The Virtual Observatory and the amateur astronomy. E. Solano. Cuenca. July 2011.

Education:

- The six Euro-VO cases translated into Spanish are available from the HoU-Spain web page.

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VObs.it

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VO-India

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

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Applications WG

The main current standardisation activity of the Apps WG is SAMP v1.3, which adds the Web Profile, providing the capability for web applications to participate in SAMP communications. Some prototype web applications making use of the Web Profile for science usage will be presented in Apps sessions in Pune.

SAMP 1.3 is advancing through the standardisation process, though slightly slower than advertised during the last Exec. A PR was posted on 05-09-2011, but this stimulated further useful discussions, and this version will now not be the subject of an RFC. The plan is now that a revised PR, informed by discussions at the Interop, will be posted shortly after Pune, followed by RFC and TCG review in the usual way, with the expectation of reaching REC status in early 2012.

A number of other VO-related applications will also be showcased during the Apps sessions as usual; the number of TAP-related submissions is notable.

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Data Access Layer WG

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Data Models WG

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Grid and Web Services Working Group

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Registry WG

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Semantics/UCD WG

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VOEvent

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VOTable WG

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Data Curation and Preservation IG

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Knowledge Discovery in Databases IG

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Theory IG