Date: Monday, February 24, 2025

Time: 19:00 UTC

Zoom Link: https://aao.zoom.us/j/84831315252?pwd=TjJZb0VBRVgxcDZ1cVVqTENZMWNMZz09

Contents

Agenda

1. Roll call and agenda
2. Review and approval of TM124 Minutes
3. Review of ACTIONS_for_TM125.pdf
   
4. Report on the IAU General Assembly
5. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
6. Overall TCG Status [Standing Item]
7. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
8. CSP Report
9. IVOA Website [New Standing Item]
   • Updating Member Organizations page
   • Draft new website available: https://webtest.ivoa.info/
   • Git Hub repository: https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web
     • Bug reporting and change requests: https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web/issues
10. Future Interop meetings
    • Northern Spring 2025 - Maryland, USA
    • Northern Fall 2025 - Görlitz (ADASS dates: 9-13 November 2025, Interop held after ADASS)
11. Date of next Exec meeting
12. AOB
13. Review of new actions

Reports from the Projects

NOVA (Argentina)

ArVO (Armenia)

AstroGrid (United Kingdom)

ASVO (Australia)

Australia is currently going through it's Decadal Plan (2036-2035) process (similar to US Decadal Review) and the ASVO has received renewed prominence in the exposure draft. The Decadal Plan is used to guide infrastructure spending in Australia in particular, so this is excellent news for the VO in Australia.

BRAVO (Brazil)

China-VO

CVO (Canada)

ESA (Europe)

Euro-VO (Europe)

The Astro-CC Pilot project started on 01 February 2025 (delayed from initial announcement). The project is planning to run events as a pilot of an Astronomy Open Science Centre in the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Astro-CC Pilot is one of the funded projects of the EC Horizon Europe OSCARS initiative (https://oscars-project.eu) which covers all areas of science. Astro-CC Pilot will be presented at the OSCARS Annual General meeting in Rome, 3-4 March 2025 (https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/34984/overview).

European astronomy communities have been contacted so that they can provide input into the planning of the events: Technology forums, Data Provider forums, and Scientific Training events (VO schools).

GAVO (Germany)

JVO (Japan)

Kazakhstan VO

NLVO (Netherlands)

OV-France

We are organizing an annual meeting around the VO, accompanied by a technical exchange on the implementation of standards and the new technologies used for data management and service development. The meeting will be held in Paris, 24-26 March, there are 46 people registered and we're currently putting together the program.

RVO (Russia)

SA^3 (South Africa)

SKAO (Square Kilometre Array Observatory; Australia & South Africa)

SVO (Spain)

UkrVO (Ukraine)

USVOA (United States)

VO-India

VObs.it (Italy)

• a workshop on data management and systems within INAF will be held 26-28 February
  • with a pre-meeting on the 25th of VObs.it people to have some discussion time
  • and a dedicated morning (two 90' sessions) to report on VO activities in INAF and give room for free discussion and to gather requirements.
  • both radio and high energy astrophysics will be of the lot.
• the week after (4-5 March) MM will attend an ASI workshop and report status and works of the IVOA (will focus also on P3T and standards refurbishment activities).

Report from the TCG

• TCG met on Wednesday February 5th ( full notes here)
• next vconf is planned for Tuesday March 11th
• besides the TCG vconf running meetings on ObsCore extension at HEIG and DM WG has happened (will report next time, wasn't able to attend them) and work is continuously progressing.
• there are also 3 documents on RFC, at least VOResource-1.2 should close soon its path
  • REC-VOTable-1.5 and EN-UDCList-1.6 are stable on the doc repository
• some DM discussion (at TCG level) had to be skipped due to missing roles in attendance, will recover next time
  • mostly related to models granularity, modularity and level/scope but also about REC/ENdorsement of models
• Ops/DAL/Apps will plan a discussion on on agent/client statistics for TAP and protocols, to see if it helps improving the VO ecosystem
• major version transitioning in Registry: MDem will think on how to start a discussion (potential task force ahead)
• (TCG chair to blame) GWS->DSP name change still to be finalised
• web static pages needs a decision, there are a few blocks: mobile responsiveness and newsletter
• looking forward for a "save the date" for the next interop

• TCG roles up for June:
  • Apps (C, VC) - no ext.
  • Registry (C, VC) - ext. possible
  • DCP (C, VC) - ext. possible
  • Solar System (C) - no ext.
• still missing TD chair

Report from the CSP

- The Interop Meeting venue was booked as fundings were secured.
- Looking for sponsors to pay for refreshments as the current sponsor for the venue cannot sponsor refreshments.