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---+ IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM60)

*FM60 - 29 Oct 2015 - (16:30 - 18:00) - Rydges Square Boardroom*

*Contents*
   * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#IVOA_Executive_Committee_Meeting][IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM60)]] 
      * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#Logistics][Logistics]]
      * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#Agenda][Agenda]]
      * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#Reports_from_the_Projects][Reports from the Projects]] 
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#Argentina_NOVA][Argentina - NOVA]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#ArVO][ArVO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#AstroGrid][AstroGrid]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#Australia_VO][Australia-VO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#BRAVO][BRAVO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#China_VO][China-VO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#ChiVO][ChiVO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#CVO][CVO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#Euro_VO][Euro-VO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#ESAVO][ESAVO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#France_VO][France VO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#GAVO][GAVO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#HVO][HVO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#VObs_it][VObs.it]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#Japan_VO][Japan-VO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#Ukraine_VO][Ukraine VO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#USVOA][USVOA]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#RVO][RVO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#SA3][SA^3]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#SVO][SVO]]
         * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#VO_India][VO-India]]
      * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#Report_from_the_TCG][Report from the TCG]]
      * [[IvoaExecMeetingFM60#Reports_from_the_WGs][Reports from the WGs]]
---++ <a name="Logistics"></a>Logistics

<span style="color: #000000; font-size: small;">Thursday, Oct 29, 2015 (16:30-18:00 AEDT) - Rydges Square Boardroom</span>

---++ <span style="line-height: 19px;">Agenda FM60</span>

   1 Roll Call and Agenda (JE)
   1 Minutes of <a target="_top" href="http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaRepMin/ivoa-tm59-20150908.pdf">TM59</a>
   1 Review of <a target="_top" href="http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaRepMin/actions-for-fm60-20151029.pdf"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Actions</span></a>
   1 Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
   1 <span style="background-color: transparent;">TCG status</span>
   1 <span style="background-color: transparent;">WG Chairs/ViceChairs/Interest Group Status</span>
   1 Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
   1 Committee on Science Priorities Terms of Reference
   1 Review terms up for Expiration
   1 <span style="background-color: transparent;">Future Interops</span> 
      * Northern Spring 2016 - S Africa (May 8-13)
      * Northern Fall 2016 - Trieste, Italy (Oct 21-23; after ADASS)
   1 <span style="background-color: transparent;">Date of Next Exec Meeting</span>
   1 <span style="background-color: transparent;">AOB</span>
   1 <span style="background-color: transparent;">Review of Action Items</span>

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---+++ <a name="Argentina-NOVA"></a>Argentina-NOVA

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---+++ <a name="ArVO"></a>ArVO

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---+++ <a name="AstroGrid"></a>AstroGrid

<span style="font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em;"><a name="AstroGrid"></span><span style="font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em;"></a></span><span style="color: #630000; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; background-color: transparent;">AstroGrid</span>

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---+++ <a name="Australia_VO"></a>Australia-VO

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---+++ <a name="BRAVO"></a>BRAVO

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---+++ <a name="China_VO"></a>China-VO

*China-VO enabled Popular Supernova Project* <br /> On July 29, 2015, the [[http://psp.china-vo.org][Popular Supernova Project]] was launched. It is the first astronomical citizen science project in China as a joint venture between [[http://www.china-vo.org/][China-VO]] and [[http://www.xjltp.com/xo/index-en.htm][Xingming Amateur Astronomical Observatory]]. In the morning of Sep. 12, a supernova candidate was discovered by a 10-year old pupil. Another two candidates discoverred on Oct. 3 and Oct. 4 have been confirmed by professional observations. Inspired by the progresseses, number of the registered users of China-VO platform raised rapidly to 140K at the IVOA meeting starts.

6 posters from China-VO are accepted by the ADASS 2015.
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---+++ <a name="ChiVO"></a>ChiVO

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---+++ <a name="CVO"></a>CVO

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---+++ <a name="Euro_VO"></a>Euro_VO

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---+++ <a name="ESAVO"></a>ESAVO

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---+++ <a name="France_VO"></a>France VO

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---+++ <a name="GAVO"></a>GAVO

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---+++ <a name="HVO"></a>HVO

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---+++ <a name="VObs_it"></a>VObs.it

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---+++ <a name="Japan_VO"></a>Japan-VO

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---+++ <a name="RVO"></a>RVO

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---+++ <a name="SA3"></a>SA^3

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---+++ <a name="SVO"></a>SVO

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---+++ <a name="Ukraine_VO"></a>Ukraine_VO

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---+++ <a name="USVOA"></a>USVOA

SAO:

&bull; RofR transition to SAO - Established working version in-house; Worked to get source into Git repository and build source code internally; Have set up apache server and a tomcat server to support RofR on DMZ; Will have RofR running week of ADASS/IVOA (Oct 29).

&bull; Iris V2.2 in development and enhancements - Replacing SED viewer using STILTS API (to enable spectral analysis); Revamped fitting tool and metadata browser; Possibly updating underlying Spectrum Data Model from v1.03 to v2.0. In the future, Iris will have a Python API for bulk analysis of SEDs. Al<span style="background-color: transparent;">so lets users edit their SEDs with other Python tools (more user customization/options).</span>

&bull; IVOA - Mark has been working on Spectral v2.0 & Image Cube; Arnold is working on STC

JHU:

&bull; SkyQuery V3.0 underwent a couple of rounds of testing over the summer but the testing will most likely continue into the fall. The integration with SciServer SSO and other services (SciDrive/CasJobs) still needs further testing and tweaks. We also have a new cluster on the way that SkyQuery will soon be deployed on

&bull; Simulation DB (FileDB) - the Millenium simulation data has been loaded into FileDB and we already have some use cases with iPython scripts to retrieve that data. We are waiting for new hardware to host that data

&bull; IVOA/VODML - Gerard has a new version of the document out, he's discussing the mapping with the DM vice-chair (L. Michel), there may be some schema tweaks needed

&bull; Integration of various SciServer services with SciDrive is going well; SciDrive itself will need some upgrades in the upcoming months

&bull; Integration SkyServer and SkyQuery with CasJobs with RESTful web services is complete and undergoing testing right now. First release of integrated products under SciServer SSO is slated by the end of the year

NRAO:

&bull; NRAO new archive development (in initial internal science testing): We re-used VO software written by CADC to implement a prototype simple search web interface that spans both the ALMA and NRAO science archives and allows astronomers to download or process data from ALMA, the GBT, the legacy and Jansky VLA and VLBA. Search results are provided by two TAP servers that are lightly modified installs of CADC's sampleTAP software interacting with subsets of the ALMA and NRAO science databases. We initially intended to pair these TAP servers with VOTV for displaying results in a user's browser, but VOTV proved to be difficult to master in the available timeframe due to the team's composition of skills and the project's sparse documentation: we used jQWidgets instead but intend to revisit VOTV for the next phase of the project. Also, the team's opinion is a TAP service that communicates in JSON using CORS instead of (or in addition to) XML would be very desirable for constructing modern web applications.

&bull; NRAO CASA viewer/VO integration (developed, needs cleanup for release): The CASA use case is to allow direct access from the CASA viewer to VO repositories for displaying images in conjunction with the users images. The intention was to enable data discovery, subcube access (invoked through the VOClient API), and display all from within the CASA viewer. We used the VOClient/DALClient library implementation developed by VAO. Some challenges were due to the simultaneous development of the tools and our application using them. Our experience was that once developed the code was reliable and stable, although there was some trouble identifying which portions of the protocol were or were not supported in a given version. During the implementation we found the learning curve to understanding the VO architecture steep, and the implementation less flexible than would be hoped (the implementation was designed to run as a daemon process, while we desired a simple library implementation that could be reused). Finally we found that once implemented there was the need to develop repository specific additions (such as one that did not support full sky queries) to make the final product user friendly.

&bull; NRAO Spectral Service (will be released in December): New tools for retrieval of a limited set of GBT spectra are available for proposers and other interested astronomers. The service will be useful for data mining and users exploring targets for proposal submissions. These services provide calibrated, processed data, including K-band extragalactic megamasers and nearby galaxy HI detections, both from a number of principal investigators. The future addition of other spectra is also possible. Queries sent from existing client applications or simple web forms return XML tables that can be easily parsed in a user-written script. A description of the services, a form for generating queries, and an example Python script is provided at https://vo.nrao.edu/gbtsa/. We rolled our own Python implementation for the service and used Bootstrap to build a simple web front end. It took a bit of work getting validation of the service to meet the documented requirements. SSAP and Cone search protocols were implemented.
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---+++ <a name="VO_India"></a>VO-India

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---++ <a name="Report_from_the_TCG"></a>Report from the TCG

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---++ <a name="Reports_from_the_WGs"></a>Reports from the WGs

*Data Model Working Group*

SpectralDM:<br /> + after some deliberation following Sesto, was decided to move forward<br /> + sent back to RFC; period ended Oct 19; minor comments by Markus have been responded to.<br /><br />STC2:<br /> + delivered updated model diagrams 10-14-2015 with updates to Frame/Transform relations which resolve one of the 2 primary concerns with the model.<br /> + converging model with NDCube prototype. working on Transform/Mapping components<br /> + has been iterating with GL on vodml-xml generation.<br /><br />NDCube:<br /> + no open issues, waiting for support model(s) STC2 and DatasetDM

DatasetMetadata:<br /> + delivered updated DatasetMetadata document 10-21-2015 with updates to STC2 prototype and comments from Sesto on various objects.<br /> + working to generalize spectral I/O library code to function on other models (including cube)<br /> + working with GL on vodml-xml generation.

VODML:<br /> + delivered updated vodml document 10-13-2015; along with updated xml resource files to <a target="_blank" href="http://ivoa.net/xml">http://ivoa.net/xml</a><br /> + working with AR/MCD on vodml-xml processing, have successfully run models generated by 3 different methods.<br /> * ready for approval process. suggested 'how to start modeling with vo-dml' note or quick reference guide.

ObsCore:<br /> + discussion on specific language for new elements is converging<br /> + with resolution, document should be ready for approval process.

Provenance:<br /> + presented @RDA in Paris and the Asterix meeting in Strasbourg

Char2:<br /> + will have presentation in Sydney regarding Char2 evolution.

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Topic revision: r4 - 2015-10-28 - JanetEvans
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