IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM69)

FM69 - Sun, 14 May 2017 - 16:00 CST (08:00 UTC), Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO)

FM69S - Wed, 17 May 2017 - 12:30 CST (4:30 UTC), Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO)

Contents

• IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM69)
  • 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 14, 2017 @16:00 CST (08:00 UTC)

Wednesday, 17 May 2017 - 12:30 CST (4:30 UTC)

Agenda FM69

1. Roll Call and Agenda (JE)
2. Minutes of TM68
3. Review of Actions
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Overall TCG status
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
7. The 'Open Universe' initiative
   • Meeting in Rome update
   • Preparations for Vienna meeting in Nov
8. Media group
   • Media group formal endorsement
   • IVOA Newsletter schedule
9. Solar System IG
10. IVOA term expirations (see list below)
11. Committee on Science Priorities - new chair search
    
12. Committee on Standards and Processes - new chair search
13. Web page review and maintenance
14. Update on Northern Fall 2017 - Santiago, Chile (Oct 27-19)
15. Future Interops
    • Northern Spring 2018 - IVOA discussion
    • Northern Fall 2018 - Washington DC/ADASS (Oct) - IVOA discussion
16. Date of Next Exec Meeting - Wed, May 17, 12:30 CLT (04:30 UTC)
17. AOB
18. Review of Action Items

• Positions with 12/2016 expiration with *no extension* available:
  • Education: Ch: Massimo Ramella
• Positions with 5/2017 expiration with *no extension* available:
  • Time Domain: Ch: John Swinbank
• Positions with 5/2017 expiration with *1 year extension* available:
  • Applications: Ch: Pierre Fernique, VCh: Tom Donaldson
  • Data Access: Ch: Francois Bonnarel, VCh: Marco Molinaro
  • Data Curation: Ch: Francoise Genova
  • Registry: Ch: Markus Demleitner

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

ESAVO

France VO

GAVO

HVO

VObs.it

Japan-VO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

Report from the TCG

Semantics

UCD: New terms added to the UCD tree. Update of the UCD v1.3 working draft .

• Comments and tests welcome.
• A revision of the CDS assigning tool is ready.
• Solar and Planetary Data Interest Group will propose new requirements. Discussed at the Semantics session at this Interop meeting (Shanghai).

• Revision of the access to the vocabulary.
• purl.org links are no longer supported so VO Paris is now supporting the distribution of the skos concepts in this.
• requires to be corrected in the Simulation Datamodel for accessing the SKOS concepts of model instances.