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---+ IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM50)

*Wednesday September 25, 2013 @ 17.00-19.00 - Naupaka Ballroom 1*

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*Contents* 
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Waikoloa Beach Marriot, Naupaka Ballroom 1
---++ Agenda

   1 Roll Call and Agenda (MA & JE)
   1 Minutes of [[http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaRepMin/ivoa-fm49-20130512.pdf][FM49]] and [[http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaRepMin/ivoa-fm49s-20130515.pdf][FM49S]]
   1 Review of [[%ATTACHURL%/actions-for-fm50-20130925.pdf][Actions]] (MA & JE)
   1 Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
   1 TCG status
   1 WG Reports
   1 IVOA Web pages and Document Repository
   1 Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
   1 WG/IG chairs/deputy chairs with expiring terms
   1 Science Priority Areas
   1 New IVOA members [ChiVO Application]
   1 Future Interops
   1 Date of Next Exec Meeting
   1 AOB
   1 Review of Action Items (MA & JE)

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---+++ Argentina - NOVA

Nova Summary September 2013

Nova is uploading data. We expect to publish part of it by the end of the year. Main target projects has been identified such as results from the VISTA survey and surveys of HI in the Sourthern Hemisphere. In the following months, we will start scanning the historical plaques which account for more that 3000 spectra and images. In June 2013, the first NOVA workshop was organized with about 70 participants from the main institutions. Halk of them PhD students which is very encouraging. Two projects to develop new tools are being discussed with the software company Globant and Conicet.

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AstroGrid continues as a informal alliance rather than a formal funded project, with UK VO workers contributing efforts through the Euro-VO projects (currently CoSADIE), through data centre and mission activities (eg VISTA, GAIA, ALMA, and preparation for EUCLID), and through one-off STFC grants (currently for Topcat and Astrotrop) . We are currently discussing whether to move the AstroGrid codebase to a service such as Google code rather than a dedicated CVS.

The latest inititiative is Astrotrop, a collaboration between astronomers and tropical forest monitoring scientists. The idea is to re-purpose VO concepts, techniques, and software for the monitoring of tropical forests via remote sensing data. The first step, funded by STFC, led by Edinburgh and Leeds, but involving lots of the usual people across UK and Europe, is an evaluation and prototyping study. The forest folk have shown great interest in IVOA as well as tools such as Topcat and Aladin.

We are holding a conference exploring ideas in *Edinburgh, October 30-31*. We would welcome international participation. A registration website will be available shortly.
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The first WWT planetarium is almost completed. An opening ceremony is planned on Oct. 21st.

China-VO and AstroInformatics 2013, the annual workshop from China-VO project, will be held from Nov. 14 to 16, 2013, at Ya'an, the hometown of Giant Panda. For the first time, the workshop in the year is sponsored by 4 IT companies. Hope it is a right way for collaboration.

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GAVO continues to run its Heidelberg and Potsdam data centers, where several services received considerable development, as did GAVO's multi-protocol server suite DaCHS.

In standards, we incorporated numerous suggestions and corrections to the relational registry working draft, which we now consider almost ready for RFC. Within the Heidelberg data center, we also run a prototype of a web-based interface to the data. GAVO has also drawn up a datalink prototype, which is used for FITS cutouts and various server-side manipulations of spectra.

The CoSADIE Data Center Forum in June brought together 40 representatives of various European projects involved with publishing astronomical data. It was invigorating to see the level of interest in interoperable solutions even outside the institutions directly involved with the VO. However, it also became very clear that solid and reliable support to the data providers is crucial for takeup of VO standards.
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The VAO team has been working hard on key close-out activities, including final releases of science applications (complete), SIAP V2 protocol definition and prototype service implementations (will be shown at this Interop), Python language bindings to VO protocols, and VOBox (rechristened SciDrive to avoid a name collision with a CERN service). We will also be presenting several poster papers at the January AAS meeting.

HEASARC, IPAC, and MAST are preparing a proposal to NASA Headquarters for the ongoing support of core VAO services. These activities include continued operation of the registry, monitoring and validation of VO services worldwide, and continued interaction with IVOA standards development. NASA requires this work to fit within current budgets, however. NSF may release an RFP for VO-enabled research tools.

A more complete status report will be uploaded here once we have completed our regular quarterly report (October 31).
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<div id="_mcePaste">RVO progress report (Sept 2013)</div>

1. The database of Moscow astronomical plate collection and maintenance of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (INASAN and SAI
<div id="_mcePaste">MSU, led by Nikolai Samus)</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">The third part of the unprecedented large 80th Name-List of Variable Stars,</div> <div id="_mcePaste">introducing new objects of the GCVS (2133 stars), has been published. The</div> <div id="_mcePaste">total number of stars in the 80th Name-list is 6328.</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">We analyzed more than 1000 first GCVS stars in the constellation Aquila.</div> <div id="_mcePaste">As a result, the first GCVS bibliographic reference (that to the main source</div> <div id="_mcePaste">of information, such as type, period, etc.) is now to the own results of the</div> <div id="_mcePaste">GCVS team for more than 650 stars of the first 1000. Classification (variability</div> <div id="_mcePaste">type) was improved or completely revised for more than 250 stars. A poster for</div> <div id="_mcePaste">the All-Russian Astronomy Conference was prepared.</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">As usual, many dozens of corrections to the electronic GCVS have been</div> <div id="_mcePaste">introduced during 2013. The lack of activity of the IAU Bureau for</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Astronomical Telegrams in announcing new GCVS names for Novae resulted in</div> <div id="_mcePaste">our making the announcement outside the frame of the Bureau; after that,</div> <div id="_mcePaste">the Bureau contacted us for names for the first time in 1.5 years and</div> <div id="_mcePaste">presented them in the IAU Circular, under one of the two names of real</div> <div id="_mcePaste">authors. As it was mentioned in our 2012 report, digitizing the Sternberg</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Institute plate collection had been temporarily discontinued. Before the</div> <div id="_mcePaste">end of 2013, we strongly hope to acquire a new scanner and continue</div> <div id="_mcePaste">digitizing. However, we proceed with discoveries of new variable stars</div> <div id="_mcePaste">using digitized plates. A paper announcing our discovery of 77 new variable</div> <div id="_mcePaste">stars in a 10??10? field centered at SA9 was accepted to Ã¬Astronomy ReportsÃ®.</div> <div id="_mcePaste">An oral talk on the Moscow digitizing program will be presented at the</div> <div id="_mcePaste">conference on digitizing the scientific heritage in Sofia (Bulgaria)</div> <div id="_mcePaste">in early October.</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">We started working on the new system of automatic classification of variable</div> <div id="_mcePaste">stars for the GCVS, based on photometric data. Two oral talks concerning</div> <div id="_mcePaste">different aspects of the GCVS future will be presented at the All-Russian</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Astronomy Conference before the end of September.</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">2. Working group "RVO data" (INASAN, led by Dana Kovaleva)</div> <div id="_mcePaste">The pilot version of the Binary Star Database (BDB) - a revised and updated</div> <div id="_mcePaste">result of evolution of the Besancon Double and Multiple Star Data Base -</div> <div id="_mcePaste">has been made available for the community at http://bdb.inasan.ru/ . The BDB</div> <div id="_mcePaste">includes data on physical and astrometric parameters of binaries of various</div> <div id="_mcePaste">types. The development of the BDB involved solution of problems of</div> <div id="_mcePaste">cross-identification and of aggregation of various format data from</div> <div id="_mcePaste">astronomical catalogues and databases. Simultaneously, data of the</div> <div id="_mcePaste">catalogues of binary stars are being included into the database, user</div> <div id="_mcePaste">interface is being tested and improved, the functions available for</div> <div id="_mcePaste">investigation purposes are being added.</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">The web pages of the RVO are to be updated by the end of Sept 2013.</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">3. Zvenigorod Scanlaboratory Group (INASAN, led by Sergei Vereshchagin)</div> <div id="_mcePaste">The project of digitization of observational archive of astronegatives</div> <div id="_mcePaste">of Zvenigorod Observatory of INASAN is completed. Current activities are</div> <div id="_mcePaste">limited to maintenance and service of the digital archives, film and</div> <div id="_mcePaste">glass plate libraries; scanning and cataloguing the plate images for some</div> <div id="_mcePaste">plates upon user's requirement. Data reduction to a standard format and</div> <div id="_mcePaste">its submission to the WFPDB is continued in accordance to standards</div> <div id="_mcePaste">of the Data Center in Sofia (WFPDB). The report on archive state and</div> <div id="_mcePaste">access modes to our archive is to be presented at the Bulgarian Data</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Center conference DHS-Sofia in October 2013.</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">The online information about the archive of astronegatives, our work,</div> <div id="_mcePaste">science group and tools:</div> <div id="_mcePaste">1) on the INASAN site http://www.inasan.ru/rus/scan/;</div> <div id="_mcePaste">2) in the Wide Field Plate Data Base in Bulgaria http://wfpdb.org/search/search.cgi</div> <div id="_mcePaste">(Getting data about archive and each plate, viewing of the negatives,</div> <div id="_mcePaste">selection plates by the parameters. In the search to use: IDobs - Ã¬ZVNÃ®,</div> <div id="_mcePaste">IDins - Ã¬040Ã® for Astrograph, IDins - Ã¬021Ã® for AFU);</div> <div id="_mcePaste">3) About the Zvenigorod Observatory Telescopes:</div> <div id="_mcePaste">http://www.inasan.ru/eng/zvenigorod/instr.html</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">4. Publications:</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">Kazarovets, E.V., Pastukhova, E.N. 2013, Light Elements for 30 Mira Type</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Variables form the NSV catalog. Peremennye Zvezdy/Variable Stars, V. 33,</div> <div id="_mcePaste">No. 6.</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Kazarovets, E.V., Samus, N.N., Durlevich, O.V., et al. 2013, The 80th</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Name-List of Variable Stars. Part III Ã± RA 16h to 24h. Information</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Bulletin on Variable Stars, No. 6052.</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Kazarovets, E.V., Samus, N.N. 2013, Novae in the 80th Name-list of Variable</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Stars (Part 3): Official Announcement of GCVS Names. Peremennye</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Zvezdy/Variable Stars, V. 33, No. 3.</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Samus, N.N. 2013, Permanent Designations of 2912 Milky Way Novae, IAU</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Circulars, No. 9259.</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Malkov O.Yu., Kaygorodov P.V., Kovaleva D.A., Oblak E., Debray E. Binary</div> <div id="_mcePaste">star database BDB: datasets and services, 2013, Astronomical and</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Astrophysical Transactions, in press</div>

Conference:

Malkov O., Skvortsov N., Avvakumova E., Dluzhnevskaya O., et al., Data support
<div id="_mcePaste">for stellar astronomy tasks, October 14-17, 2013, XVth All-Russian Conference</div> <div id="_mcePaste">on Electronic Libraries, Yaroslavl', Russia</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Kaigorodov P., Dluzhnevskaya O., Kovaleva D., Malkov O. Architecture of the</div> <div id="_mcePaste">BDB Database, October 2013, "Infrastructure of the scientific informational</div> <div id="_mcePaste">resources and systems IIIrd All-Russia Symposium, Sukhum, Abkhasia</div> <div id="_mcePaste">N.V.Chupina, S.V.Vereshchagin, Digital archives of the Zvenigorod</div> <div id="_mcePaste">astronomical observatory INASAN, HUMBOLDT KOLLEG, "Digitization of</div> <div id="_mcePaste">Heritage in Science" October 1-5, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria, poster.</div>

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(Since May 2013)

Manpower: 7 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.

*Science:*

   * Authors:LÃ³pez MartÃ, BelÃ©n; JimÃ©nez-Esteban, Francisco; Bayo, Amelia; Barrado, David; Solano, Enrique; Bouy, HervÃ©; Rodrigo, Carlos 
      * Title: Proper motions of young stars in Chamaeleon. II. New kinematical candidate members of Chamaeleon I and II
      * Journal: 2013A&A...556A.144L
   * Authors: MartÃn, E. L.; Cabrera, J.; Martioli, E.; Solano, E.; Tata, R. 
      * Title: Kepler observations of very low-mass stars
      * Journal: 2013A&A...555A.108M
   * Authors: Eiroa, C.; Marshall, J. P.; Mora, A.; Montesinos, B.; Absil, O.; Augereau, J. Ch.; Bayo, A.; Bryden, G.; Danchi, W.; del Burgo, C.; and 40 coauthors 
      * Title: DUst around NEarby Stars. The survey observational results
      * Journal: 2013A&A...555A..11E
   * Authors: Bouy, H.; Bertin, E.; Moraux, E.; Cuillandre, J.-C.; Bouvier, J.; Barrado, D.; Solano, E.; Bayo, A. 
      * Title: Dynamical analysis of nearby clusters. Automated astrometry from the ground: precision proper motions over a wide field
      * Journal: 2013A&A...554A.101B
   * Authors: SÃ¡nchez-Janssen, R.; AmorÃn, R.; GarcÃa-Vargas, M.; Gomes, J. M.; Huertas-Company, M.; JimÃ©nez-Esteban, F.; MollÃ¡, M.; Papaderos, P.; PÃ©rez-Montero, E.; Rodrigo, C.; and 2 coauthors 
      * Title: A Virtual Observatory Census to Address Dwarfs Origins (AVOCADO). I. Science goals, sample selection, and analysis tools
      * Journal: 2013A&A...554A..20S

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