IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM63)

FM63 - 08 May 2016 - Manor House Meeting Room - 16:00 local time

FM63S - 11 May 2016 - Manor House Meeting Room - 12:30 local time

Contents

• IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM63)
  • Logistics
  • Agenda
  • Reports from the Projects
    • Argentina - NOVA
    • ArVO
    • AstroGrid
    • Australia-VO
    • BRAVO
    • China-VO
    • ChiVO
    • CVO
    • Euro-VO
    • ESAVO
    • France VO
    • GAVO
    • HVO
    • VObs.it
    • Japan-VO
    • Ukraine VO
    • USVOA
    • RVO
    • SA^3
    • SVO
    • VO-India
  • Report from the TCG
  • Reports from the WGs

Logistics

Sunday, May 08, 2016 - Manor House Meeting Room @16:00 local time

Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - Manor House Meeting Room @12:30 local time

Agenda FM63

1. Roll Call and Agenda (JE)
2. Minutes of TM62
3. Review of Actions
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. TCG status
6. WG Chairs/Vice Chairs status
7. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
8. Focus Session plans and discussion
9. IVOA social media presence (action from Gus / Giulia)

1. Review WG/IG terms/candidates up for Expiration (See list below)
2. Decision on new IVOA Vice Chair ( at Sunday Exec meeting )
3. AOB
4. Review of Action Items

1. CODATA/WDS session planning
2. Report on SciDataCon session on multi disciplinary interoperability (CA)
3. Decision on WG/IG terms/candidates up for Expiration
   
4. Update on Northern Fall 2016 - Trieste, Italy (Oct 21-23; after ADASS)
   1. registration, logistics
   2. overall planning update
   3. plenary talks and focus sessions planning discussion
5. Future Interops
   • Northern Spring 2017 - Shanghai, China
   • Northern Autumn 2017 - Chile
     
6. Date of Next Exec Meeting
7. AOB
8. Review of Action Items

The following positions will be coming due at the Northern Spring 2016 meeting:

• Theory Interest Group Chair (No extension)
• Time Domain Chair/Vice Chair (Extendable) [C:John Swinbank; VC: Mike Fitzpatrick]
• Executive Committee Vice Chair

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

Astronomical plate digitalization project in China gets good progress in the last months. A special designed scanner has been built. After long time optimizing, now astrometry accuracy is better than 0.2um, and photometry accuracy is better than 0.01 mag. All the 30 thousand plates collected by astronomers during the last century in China will be scanned by the ultra-high-accuracy facility in the next 12 months. All the data will be released to the public through Chinese Virtual Observatory.

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

ESAVO

France VO

GAVO

HVO

VObs.it

Japan-VO

In March 2016 JVO released a new version of the ALMAWebQL system that enables users to access already pulished ALMA archival data on the browser, to browse images and spectra with variable "beam" size and/or frequency range. As of today, the largest file size is about 23 GigaBytes which can be displayed within a few seconds.

The ALMAWebQL version 2 can be accessed from
http://jvo.nao.ac.jp/portal/alma.do

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

VO-India

Report from the TCG