IvoaExecMeetingFM46 < IVOA

---+ IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM46)

*Sunday October 21 @ 16:00 - 18:00*

*Argentina Room in the Tryp Itaim Hotel. Address: Rua Manuel Guedes, 320*

*[Supplementary Meeting: Wednesday October 24 @ 12:30 - 14:00, room 15 Administration building]*

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---++ Agenda FM46

   1 Roll Call and Agenda (MA)
   1 Minutes of [[http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaRepMin/ivoa-tm45-20120712.pdf][TM45]]
   1 Review of [[%ATTACHURL%/actions-for-fm46-20121021.pdf][Actions]]
   1 Project Reports - Significant Events Only
   1 Report of the TCG status (SG)
   1 WG Reports
   1 Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
   1 Proposal for IVOA Interest Group on Education and Outreach
   1 Proposal for South Africa membership in IVOA
   1 Future of IVOA
   1 Date of next telecon meeting
   1 AOB
   1 Summary of Actions (MA)

---++ Reports from the Projects

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---+++ Argentina - NOVA
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NOVA is installing and uploading data in some of institutions. A set of data from the VVV survey will be uploaded in the following months. The scanning of 'historical data' is still one of the aims of NOVA but there are many different opinions about how this should be done and no data has been so far produced.

At begining of next year, a 'master' talk will be given simultaneously in different institutions to motivate researchers to upload their data and to use VO.

NOVA is planning a two days workshop on VO techniques for June 2013.
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<nop>Euro-VO International Collaboration Empowerment (<nop>EuroVO-ICE, [[http://www.eurovo-ice.eu]]), a small Collaborative Action funded by the European Commission from 1 September 2010 to 31 August 2012, successfully passed its final review on 17 October 2012.

The next step for <nop>Euro-VO is the <nop>CoSADIE project, Collaborative and Sustainable Astronomical Data Infrastructure for Europe ([[http://www.cosadie.eu]]), which started on 1 September 2012, again for two years. <nop>CoSADIE is centred on the development of strategies and coordination structures, through a feasibility study for a sustainable European Virtual Observatory giving access to the open, highly diverse, highly distributed data holdings of astronomy. It also aims at disseminating results among and gathering requirements from the scientific community (users) and the data providers. It will continue to co-ordinate European technical activities, and includes the promotion and monitoring of international standards, and their adoption through the International Virtual Observatory Alliance IVOA. Co-operation and interface with the grid and cloud will also be assessed. Specific care will be taken to consolidate the high impact VObs outreach activities towards education and the general public. <nop>CoSADIE is led by CDS/CNRS, and the other partners are INAF (Italy), INTA (Spain), the University of Edinburgh (UK) and the University of Heidelberg (Germany), each partner representing a national VO project. <nop>ESA-VO is associated to the project. <nop>CoSADIE will organise a VO School and a Data Centre Forum, as well as a series of Europe-wide Technology Forums for the VO developers. The feasibility study will be performed in close collaboration with Astronet (<a target="_top" href="http://www.astronet-eu.org">http://www.astronet-eu.org</a>), a European Network gathering nearly all Astronomy funding agencies, which develops a strategy for European astronomy.

Another aspect of activities is the rapid emergence of the Research Data Alliance, which is supported by the European Commission, NSF and Australia. The purpose of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) is to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability. This will be achieved through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables. CDS participates in a European project called iCORDI which will act in support to RDA, and it is clear that astronomy has a lot to share in particular in terms of best practices in the RDA context. The RDA web site, still in construction, is at http://rd-alliance.org/.

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<em>France VO activities since October 2011<br /></em>

France VO held its "2011 meeting" on 16-17 January 2012 in Paris (the meeting had to be delayed because of the difficulty to find a meeting room for two days !). It gathered ~43 participants from 15 French laboratories from the Paris region, Besancon, Grenoble, Marseille, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Toulouse. Status reports on the astronomical and planetology VOs and on the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) were presented, as well as the activities in Theory, Grid and workflows, and Geodetics. Local VO activities, services and tools were also presented, and VO data model and data access layer activities were discussed. The programme and presentations can be found from http://www.france-ov.org/twiki/bin/view/ASOVFrance/ProgrammeASOV2012 (in French).

France VO continued to support travels to IVOA meetings, the organisation of workshops on focussed subjects and travels for collaborations at the regional level or between teams, as well as the organisation of workshops to support take-up by astronomers. A successful VO school on the scientific usage of VO tools has been organised in Grenoble on 30 November - 2 December 2011 ([[http://ipag.osug.fr/ov2011/spip.php?article1]]), with support of CDS staff. A plenary talk demonstrating science usage of the VO was also presented by C. Bot and T. Boch at the annual meeting of the French Astronomical Society, "Semaine de l'Astrophysique Francaise 2012" (5-8 June 2012, Nice).

Authors from French laboratories participated actively in the completion of SAMP 1.3, SSA 1.1, <nop>SimDM, Spectrum DM, <nop>ObsDM Core Components, in <nop>PhotDM, <nop>VOSpace 2.0 and Units, which are currently in RFC, and in the PDL Working Draft.

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New data sets in our Heidelberg data center include the data cubes from CALIFA DR1, the guaranteed time spectra from FEROS and HEROS, neutrino observations from Amanda and IceCube, and the SPM4 proper motion catalog.

We have spent some time working with TAP service operators to repair what was broken when havesting their TAP_SCHEMAs . Thus, our Global TAP Schema now contains 118019 columns from 2793 tables (for comparison: the relational registry has 546759 columns from 28029 tables).

Our server software has, among other features, grown support for the SSAP getData operation as proposed in Urbana, as well as for SAMP-Web for our form-based services.

In standards, we're working on the relational registry (there's an internal working draft out for discussion in Sao Paulo), and the TAP implementation notes (a collection of proposals to fix and improve the TAP stack); significant work also went into contributing to and implementing the VOUnits draft, the utypes tiger team, and DALI.

Also, we've made a nice (if we may say so ourselves) ADQL reference card, see http://docs.g-vo.org/adqlref; we've already handed out quite a few of those at our annual booth at the conference of the Astronomische Gesellschaft.
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RVO progress report (Oct 2012)<br /><br />1. The database of Moscow astronomical plate collection and<br />maintenance of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (INASAN and SAI<br />MSU, led by Nikolai Samus)<br /><br />As mentioned in our 2011 report, because of its unprecedented large volume, <br />the 80th Name-List of Variable Stars, introducing new objects of the GCVS, <br />is being prepared in three parts. After the previous report, towards the end <br />of the year, Part 2 of the 80th Name-List (2161 stars, right ascensions <br />between 6h and 16h) was published. Part 3 (also about 2000 stars) will be <br />submitted before the end of 2012. <br /><br />We have made considerable effort in analyzing future GCVS prospects and <br />necessary changes in our approaches to the project. Two talks on this subject <br />were delivered by N. Samus at the IAU General Assembly in Beijing.<br /><br />Many dozens of corrections to the electronic GCVS have been introduced during <br />2012. We continued to provide the IAU Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams with <br />new GCVS names given to Novae immediately upon their discovery; however, <br />the response of the BAT has become extremely delayed, and we even do not know <br />exactly which of these designations have been actually announced by the CBAT. <br />Digitizing the Sternberg Institute plate collection has temporarily stopped, <br />the scanners need replacement that was not secured during 2012 due to <br />financial problems. However, we proceed with discoveries of new variable <br />stars using digitized plates. Two papers on discoveries in different <br />10 X 10 degree fields are close to the end of their preparation.<br /><br />2. Working group "RVO data" (INASAN, led by Dana Kovaleva)<br /><br />The pilot version of the Binary Star Database (BDB) - a revised and updated <br />result of evolution of the Besancon Double and Multiple Star Data Base -<br />soon will be available for the community at http://bdb.inasan.ru/ . The BDB <br />includes data on physical and astrometric parameters of binaries of various <br />types. The development of the BDB involved solution of problems of <br />cross-identification and of aggregation of various format data from <br />astronomical catalogues and databases. The report on BDB has been presented <br />at the XIV annual All-Russian conference on Digital Libraries (Program Systems <br />Institute of Russian Acad. Sci., October 15 to 18, 2012, <br />http://rcdl2012.pereslavl.ru/section.php?id=1&plang=e).<br /><br />The scheme of the list of russian astronomical resources has been revised. <br />The update will be placed at the web pages of the RVO by the end of 2012.<br /><br />3. Zvenigorod Scanlaboratory Group (INASAN, led by Sergei Vereshchagin)<br /><br />Zvenigorod observatory keeps working on the project "The creation <br />of the electronic library of astronegatives received on Zvenigorod Astrograph".<br /><br />The project: "The service of the electronic library of astronegatives received <br />on Zvenigorod Astrograph, add data, its reduction to a standard format and it <br />inclusion into WFPDB.<br /><br />Telescope: Astrograph Carl Zeiss - 400/2000. It is established in Zvenigorod <br />in 1972. Focus=200 cm.<br /><br />Plate parameters: Since 1972 about to 2005 was observed the 3703 negatives <br />and are fixed in log. Wide field equal 8.5 deg on 8.5 deg for as much as possible <br />for a large plate with size 30 on 30 cm. Such field of view allows to <br />photograph a long tails of comets, having them on a plate diagonal. <br /><br />The information on work science groups, tools, volumes and characteristics <br />of glass library of the Zvenigorod observatory is presented on the INASAN <br />site http://www.inasan.ru/rus/scan/. The address of a site for viewing of <br />archive of photographic plates of the Zvenigorod Astrograph in a Data Base <br />in Bulgaria is http://draco.skyarchive.org/search/search.cgi. For the <br />project equipment A3 EPSON Expression 1640XL scanner used. <br /><br />Now we continue a scanning and cataloging the plate images according to <br />requirements of the Data Center in Sofia (WFPDB).<br /><br />Scanning of photographic plates of the Zvenigorod Astrograph: 250 negatives <br />in FITS, TIFF and JPG - formats are scanned in 2012. Now accessible more <br />than 1800 scans in total.<br /><br />The scans was recorded on DVD, SOTA and USB disks by Panferova V. I.<br /><br />The data of AFU camera films was added to WFPDB.<br />(http://wfpdb.org/search/ for the search to use the IDobs - "ZVN", IDins <br />- "021").<br /><br />4. Publications<br /><br />Kazarovets, E.V., Pastukhova, E.N., Samus, N.N., Bogdanova, E.M. New <br />Variables in Pegasus: How Can We Use WASP0 Data. Perem. Zvezdy, 2012, 32, <br />No. 4.<br /><br />Kazarovets, E.V., Samus, N.N., Durlevich, O.V., et al. 2011, The 80th <br />Name-List of Variable Stars. Part II - RA 6h to 16h. Information Bulletin <br />on Variable Stars, No. 6008.<br /><br />Samus, N.N., Antipin, S. Recent Space Missions and Ground-Base Surveys and <br />their Implication for Variable-Star Studies. In: 50 years of cosmic era: <br />real and virtual studies if the sky, proceedings of a conference of young <br />sciences of CIS countries, 21-25 November 2011, eds. A. Mikaelian, <br />O. Malkov, N. Samus, Yerevan: National Academy of Sciences, 2012, p. 39-47. <br /><br />Kaygorodov, P.; Debray, B.; Kolesnikov, N.; Kovaleva, D.; Malkov, O. <br />The New Version of the Binary Star Database (bdb). Baltic Astronomy 2012, <br />v. 21, p. 309<br /><br />Kaygorodov P.V., Malkov O.Yu, Kovaleva D.A. Binary Star Database (BDB). <br />In: Digital libraries XIV, 2012, in press.<br /><br />Kovaleva D.A., Dluzhnevskaya O.B. Russian resources of astronomical data <br />to be integrated in the International Virtual Observatory. In: Digital <br />libraries XIII, 2011, Voronezh State University, p. 317-325. / <br />CEUR Workshop Proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-803/paper22.pdf<br /><br />S.V. Vereshchagin and N.V. Chupina, Digital archive of the Astrograph plates <br />stored at the INASAN Zvenigorod observatory, Baltic Astronomy, 2012, v. 21, <br />p. 366<br /><br />Sergei V. Vereshchagin, Natalia V. Chupina, Valery P. Osipenko, <br />Olga B. Dluzhnevskaya and Milcho K. Tsvetkov The Zvenigorod astronomical <br />plate collection presented in the Wide-Field Plate DataBase. VII <br />Bulgarian-Serbian Astronomical Conference (VII BSAC), 1-4 June 2010, <br />Chepelare, Bulgaria, Proceedings of the VII Bulgarian-Serbian Astronomical <br />Conference, eds. Milcho K. Tsvetkov, Milan S. Dimitrijevic, Katya <br />Tsvetkova, Ognyan Kounchev and Zarko Mijajlovic, Publ. Astron. Soc. <br />"Rudjer Boskovic", No 11, 2012, 209-218<br /><br />Olga B. Dluzhnevskaya, Sergei V. Vereshchagin, Natalia V. Chupina, <br />Valery P. Osipenko The INASAN Zvenigorod observatory plate collection. <br />VII Bulgarian-Serbian Astronomical Conference (VII BSAC), 1-4 June 2010, <br />Chepelare, Bulgaria, Proceedings of the VII Bulgarian-Serbian Astronomical <br />Conference, eds. Milcho K. Tsvetkov, Milan S. Dimitrijevic, Katya Tsvetkova, <br />Ognyan Kounchev and Zarko Mijajlovic, Publ. Astron. Soc. "Rudjer Boskovic", <br />No 11, 2012, 359-362<br /><br />Catalogs in CDS:<br /><br />Vereshchagin S.V., Chupina N.V. ORICAT Catalog of Stars in Orion Great <br />Nebula, 2011, CDS number J/AZh/88/143/oricat<br /><br />Vereshchagin S.V., Chupina N.V. Stellar groups of Orion's Sword region, <br />2010, CDS number J/AZh/87/853/table2
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(Since May 2012)

*Manpower:* 10 FTEs. The SVO Thematic Network (people from Spanish institutes with interest in the VO) is composed of almost 200 participants from more than 30 labs.

*VO Archives:*

- Presentation on the archive design of HEXA, a 6.5m telescope proposed for the Calar Alto Observatory (http://riastronomia.es/opencms/opencms/Workshops/R_20111205.html)

- Presentation on the SVO contribution to the Gaia mission: https://gaia.am.ub.es/Twiki/pub/RecGaia/RiaICTS/Gaia+ICTS_Solano.pdf

*VO Data Models:*

- Building a VO-compliant Radio Astronomical DAta Model for Single-dish radio telescopes (RADAMS) (Santander-Vela, J. D.; García, E.; Leon, S.; Espigares, V.; Ruiz, J. E.; Verdes-Montenegro, L.; Solano, E.). Accepted by Experimental Astronomy. (2012arXiv1205.2562S)

*VO Science:*

- Red supergiants around the obscured open cluster Stephenson 2 (Negueruela et al.). Accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.3282v1.pdf)

*Outreach:*

- The citizen-science project "Identification of Near Earth Asteroids using VO tools" (http://www.laeff.cab.inta-csic.es/projects/near/main/?&newlang=eng) described in the [[http://www.madrimasd.org/lanochedelosinvestigadores/2012/06/entre-la-tierra-y-el-cielo/][Researchers' Night 2012]] (in Spanish).

*Education:*

- VO talk and hands-on session in the Gaia GREAT-ITN School " [[http://www.iac.es/congreso/itn-gaia/pages/lectures-at-the-school.php][The Art of Observational Campaigns]]"

- Summer school (25 hours) on technological advances and Astronomy (http://www.upct.es/contenido/cursosverano/cursos.php?id=270&cat=2; in Spanish)
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The final TAP-RegExt-1.0 document was published on August 27 after approval by the IVOA Exec in June.

The DALI-1.0 working draft was improved since the last interop; the last few issues will be addressed this week.

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---+++ Semantics/UCD WG
   * *Shared topics with other WG groups :*
SKOS concepts : A current discussion is shared on the VOTable list on how to express SKOS concepts tags in VOTable serialisation. This will be discussed at Saopaulo meeting during the Applications sessions.

   * *VOUnit proposed recommendation :*
The document ended the RFC period with few comments. Most comments have been ansered . An updated version of the Proposed Rec Document is in preparation.

   * *Liaison activities:*
The IVOA Semantic working group was represented at the AstroInformatics Meeting in Redmond , Sept 2012 and advertised our VO semantic work.
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