FM84 - May 12 2019 - 4-6pm local time - Salle du Conseil

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Draft Agenda FM84

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of TM83
3. Review of Exec Actions
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Overall TCG Status
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
7. Overall CSP Status
8. Review terms up for expiration in May
   • DataModel : Mark Cresitello-Dittmar - Ch (no ext.), Laurent Michel (no ext.)
   • GWS: Brian Major - Ch (no ext.), Giuliano Taffoni - VCh (no ext.)
   • Semantics: Mireille Louys - Ch (no ext.)
   • Theory: Carlos Rodrigo (1 yr. ext.)
   • Ops: Tom McGlynn - Ch (no ext.), Mark Taylor (no ext.)
   • Time Domain : D. Morris - VCh (1 yr. ext.)
9. Requested item - Common Archive Observation Model - David Schade
10. Future Interops
11. AOB
12. Date of next Exec meeting
13. Review of New Action Items

Reports from the Projects

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

China-VO Highlights in FY2018 (InterOpMay2018 to InterOpMay2019)

Communities and Involvement

• Nov. 2018, the China-VO and Astroinformatics 2018 was held successfully in Jingdezhen, more than 170 persons attended the event.
• Dec. 2018, the Proposal of Informatization Working Committee (IWCC) of Chinese Astronomical Society was approved.
• Apr. 2019, at the ACAMAR 5 (Australia-China Consortium for Astrophysical Research), Chenzhou gave a talk about IVOA.
• Under the name of EduIG and IAU DAEPO WG

• IAU GA30 Vienna
• WG renew application
• IAUS 358 Astronomy for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion — a roadmap to action within the framework of the IAU 100th Anniversary
• Data-driven EPO session @ CODATA Beijing 2019
• Data-driven EPO session @ Scientific Data Conference 2019

Data Releases and Open Access

• Jul. 2018, LAMOST DR4 released globally, which was included by VizieR in Sep. 2019
• May. 2018, AST3 ( Three Antarctic Survey Telescopes) DR1 released
• Apr. 2018, GAIA DR2 was mirrored in China by China-VO

• May 2019, China-VO Paperdata, a journal paper data repository, upgraded with VOSpace and DOI implementations, and linked with China-VO Registry. (http://paperdata.china-vo.org/)
• May 2019, China-VO WWT 2.0 released with HiPS implementation and enhanced VR and Microsoft Kinect support. Dozens of HiPS datasets, including Chang’e-II 7m lunar global data, are accessible from the new version. (http://wwt.china-vo.org)

• Feb. 2018, LAMOST dataset was used in the Alibaba AI contest.
• Mar. 2019, PSP dataset was used in the Futurelab AI contest.
• Aug. 2018, WWT Teacher training 2018 in Tsingtao.
• Jul. 2018, The 2nd East Asian Workshops on Astrostatistics & R were held in Nanjing and Guiyang. A total of 129 participants from 28 astronomical research institutes of China, Japan, Vietnam and Mongolia attended to the workshop.

• In Oct. 2018, Chinese Astronomical Data Center (CAsDC) passed WDS&RDA CoreTrustSeal Certification.
• Jun. 2018, Chenzhou Cui was elected as the vice president of IAU Commission B2.
• Dec. 2018, "WWT Planetarium based on the big data of Virtual Observatory" submitted by China-VO, won the FDSTMC (Foundation for the Development of Science and Technology Museums in China ) Nomination Award.
• Apr. 2019, LAMOST Data Release System was awarded as Best-practice of Chinese Academy of Sciences e-Science project.

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

ESAVO

France VO

GAVO

HVO

Japan-VO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Vo-India

Vobs.it

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

Report from the TCG

Report from the Working Groups