IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (FM84)

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

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Hosted by CXC Data Systems

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

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ArVO

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AstroGrid

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Australia-VO

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BRAVO

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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

System Development

• 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)

Contests and Trainings

• 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.

Awards and Honors

• 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

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Euro_VO

Euro-VO partners have been active in the past period in particular with the overlap of the ASTERICS project (ended April 2019) and the ESCAPE project (started February 2019).

The ASTERICS project held a number of events in the last 6 months of the project:

• Fourth ASTERICS DADI European school 20-22 November 2018 (Strasbourg, France) Program, presentations and tutorial materials available: https://www.asterics2020.eu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=open:wp4:school4

• Fifth ASTERICS DADI Technology Forum 26-28 February 2019 (Strasbourg, France) Program and presentations available: https://www.asterics2020.eu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=open:wp4:wp4techforum5

There were 3 extra associated events connected to the Technology forum:

• Extra event: EST (European Solar Telescope) and the VO, 26 February
• Extra event: Radio Astronomy and the VO, 28 February
• Project meeting: ASTERICS Multi-messenger Platform, 28 February

• DADI/OBELICS Authentication & Authorisation meeting https://www.asterics2020.eu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=open:wp4:authnauthzf2f

• ASTERICS Final conference: The New Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics 25-29 March 2019, Groningen, Netherlands http://multi-messenger.asterics2020.eu Presentations available: http://multi-messenger.asterics2020.eu/Presentations.htm

The ESCAPE project began with a kick-off meeting, and is currently in the preliminary 6 month “ramp-up” phase.

• Kick-off meeting, 7-8 February 2019, Annecy, France https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/18323/

CDS - A major upgrade of the main CDS data server is in progress, the CDS “All-Sky-Data” project (~1.4 Pb) which will include the CDS HiPS node.

Contributions at ADASS2018 (http://adass2018.umd.edu/) include tutorials and presentations focused on VO

• All-sky astrophysics with HiPS and MOC presented by S. Derriere (CDS)
• A comprehensive use case scenario of VO standards and protocols by H. Heinl (Heidelberg) and D. Morris (Edinburgh). (Tutorials 1 and 3, http://adass2018.umd.edu/tutorial.html)
• Invited talk on "Data Challenges of the VO in Time Domain Astronomy" was presented by A. Nebot (CDS). (http://adass2018.umd.edu/abstracts/I8-1.pdf)
• "ProvTAP: A TAP service for providing IVOA provenance metadata" (F. Bonnarel, CDS). ( http://adass2018.umd.edu/abstracts/O11-3.pdf)

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ESAVO

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France VO

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GAVO

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HVO

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Japan-VO

RVO

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SA^3

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SVO

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Vo-India

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Vobs.it

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Ukraine_VO

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USVOA

SAO/CXC:

Science Policy: G. Fabbiano coordinated USVOA white paper effort for the US 2020 Decadal: Review. Six white papers were developed discussing exploration (including multi-wavelength archival exploration) as a major source of scientific discovery, and submitted to the various science topic sub-committees. These white papers discuss important unanticipated discoveries, and advocate support for data management, software and archive interoperability. A collation of the white papers can be seen at https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06634

Chandra Source Catalog 2 (CSC2): All data for the second version of the Chandra Source: Catalog (CSC 2.0) have been processed. Final release of CSC 2.0 is scheduled for summer 2019. IVOA service access to catalog data is planned. CSC2 data visualization is implemented using WWT.

Chandra HIPS: Developed and Implemented a pipeline using HIPSGen on Public Chandra Archive data (1999-Mar2018); Coordinated with ESA to include Chandra HIPS in Integration version of ESASky for review and test; After round of testing we will re-generate the HIPS files (found one issue so far) with a End of May release date expected. Presentation planned for Interop.

New Multi-messenger VO services: Implemented ObjVisSAP v0.4 & ObsLocTAP v0.4 for Chandra: New Protocols for standardizing Observation Visibility and Planning information; Coordinated with Jan-Uwe Ness and group at ESA for early implementation of working draft standard. Released service and currently working 1st round of feedback before announcing more widely. Presentation planned for Interop.

RofR: Implementing upgrades based on discussions in College Park MD; Work on automating registry validation notification reports/emails from the RofR website; Harvested and manually replaced registry resources for the RofR. Planning status presentation at Interop.

DM: Significant effort in the Coordinates, Transforms, and Measurements Data models (Formally one model called STC) to bring to Standards WD process level. All 3 models will be at a mature Working Draft (WD) level going into the May Interop.

Data Curation and Preservation: developed a plan for the transition of the Chandra Data Archive to DOIs as persistent identifiers for Chandra data products (from single observations to aggregated datasets), Chandra Source Catalog(s) and data collection associated to publications. This plan covers the rule for metadata population, relational identifiers, update triggers and landing pages. Raffaele will give a status report presentation at InterOp.

Report from the TCG

Report from the Working Groups