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*IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM127)*

<b>Date: </b>Sunday, June 1, 2025

<b>Time: </b>20:00 UTC

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

*Contents*

<br />%TOC%
---++ Agenda
   1 Roll call and agenda
   1 Review and approval of TM126 Minutes
   1 Review of [[%ATTACHURL%/ACTIONS_for_TM127.pdf][ACTIONS_for_TM127.pdf]]
   1 Exec Membership Updates
      * Recognition of Ajit Khembavi's association with IVOA for over 20 years
      * Recognition of Sudhanshu Barway as new VO-India representative on Exec
   1 IVOA Communication Channels
   1 IVOA Web Assets Organization and Efforts
   1 <span style="background-color: transparent;">Interest Group Scope</span>
   1 IG/WG Chairs and Vice Chairs Terms
   1 Future Interop meetings
      * Northern Fall 2025 - Görlitz (ADASS dates: 9-13 November 2025, Interop held after ADASS)
      * Northern Spring 2026
   1 Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
   1 Overall TCG Status [Standing Item]
   1 Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
   1 CSP Report
   1 IVOA Website [New Standing Item]
      * Draft new website available: <a href="https://webtest.ivoa.info" target="_blank">https://webtest.ivoa.info</a>/
      * Git Hub repository: [[https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web]]
         * Bug reporting and change requests: [[https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web/issues]]
   1 Report on the IAU General Assembly/Working Group
   1 Date of next Exec meeting
   1 AOB
   1 Review of new actions
---++ Reports from the Projects
---+++ NOVA (Argentina)

---+++ ArVO (Armenia)

---+++ AstroGrid (United Kingdom)

---+++ ASVO (Australia)

---+++ BRAVO (Brazil)

---+++ China-VO

---+++ CVO (Canada)

---+++ ESA (Europe)

---+++ Euro-VO (Europe)

---+++ GAVO (Germany)

GAVO's Heidelberg data centre keeps adding resources at a rate of a few per semester; a particularly fun one was a service to collect ground-based amateur observations of the Gaia spacecraft during its high-brightness phase in early 2025 (http://dc.g-vo.org/citigbot/q/browse/form).

We maintain and support our data publication package DaCHS. Quite a bit of work went into type-annotating several areas of its source code with the goal of making it more suitable for community development. It also now returns VOTable 1.5 by default, and we have added a management interface for persistent TAP uploads.

We keep co-operating with Germany's national research data infrastructure NFDI, for instance by bringing the VO's DocRegExt records into a format suitable for DALIA (https://dalia.education/en) and uploading them there (provided there's a proper license on them). We also have put in a major grant application to the ErUMData funding scheme with a goal of moving our data centres to the new DZA.

Among our contributions to pyVO, there is a registry constraint on UAT keywords that includes semantics-based query expansion (https://blog.g-vo.org/a-new-constraint-class-in-pyvo-s-registry-api-uat.html); this meshes nicely with our continued involvement in the UAT steering committee.

---+++ JVO (Japan)

---+++ Kazakhstan VO

---+++ NLVO (Netherlands)

---+++ OV-France

---+++ 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)

   * INAF partnership in the Astro-CC project
      * will organise a Tech Forum in October (6-10 TBC)
      * event to engage the community on the topics of technical standards and interoperability frameworks to enable FAIR data services in the domains of astronomy, heliospheric physics, planetary science, and astro-particle physics.
      * web page: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/36318/ (registration will open soon)
      * a preliminary survey to taylor the event is also available

---+++ Report from the TCG

   * TCG last met by vconf on May 6th, next meeting (hybrid) tomorrow morning (EDT)
      * main activity has been setting up the interop's schedule
      * REC path is looking forrward to final reviews from some groups on VOEvent-2.1 and StandardRegExt -1.1
      * UMD interop will see two types of _side_ topics, w.r.t. usual REC & feedback
         * standards processing, major version transition handling, web assets architecture
         * ObsCore & extensions
         * modes and roles of _Data Models_ now and forward
   * after the interop, TCG plans a wrap up vconf at the end of June, an informal get-together at end of July and restart pacing from end of August

---+++ IAU Working Group Report

---+++ Report from the CSP
   * [[%ATTACHURL%/ACTIONS_for_TM127.pdf][ACTIONS_for_TM127.pdf]]: ACTIONS_for_TM127.pdf

Attachments

Topic attachments
I	Attachment	History	Action	Size	Date	Who	Comment
pdf	ACTIONS_for_TM127.pdf	r1	manage	96.1 K	2025-05-28 - 19:12	MarcyHarbut

Topic revision: r7 - 2025-06-01 - MarkusDemleitner

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