Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025

Time: CET/Local Time: 17:30 to 19:00 local time; UTC: 16:30 to 18:00

Physical Location: Postplatz 1, Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik (DZA), Görlitz, Germany

Contents

Agenda

1. Roll call and agenda
2. Review and approval of TM129 Minutes
3. Review of Actions for TM130
   
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. TCG Report
6. CSP Report
7. IAU General Assembly/Working Group Report
8. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s)
9. IVOA Website
10. Future Interop meetings
    • Northern Spring 2026
    • Northern Fall 2026
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)

BRAVO (Brazil)

China-VO

• The annual meeting, Astroinformatics and Virtual Observatory 2025, will be held November 26-29, 2025 in Hainan. 180+ participants have been registered. The theme of the meeting is "API&MCP". Driven by API&MCP, we hope to provide the community with FAIRable and AI-ready services. More information about the meeting is available at https://nadc.china-vo.org/events/cvo2025.

CVO (Canada)

ESA (Europe)

Euro-VO (Europe)

GAVO (Germany)

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)

• Orgnised the 1st Tech Forum for the Astro-CC project; it was held in INAF-OATs 7-9 October, offered enough room for standards and interoperability discussion, relevant for the EU partners: some content will be reported in interop's sessions.
• Held a seminar at the Master on Data Management and Curation, organised for students and PhDs by Area Trieste and SISSA: IVOA history, status and challenges.
• Besides efforts in DAL, DSP, Radio groups, some efforts seems to restart on Theory topics (cross fingers).

Report from the TCG

• TCG met 2 twice (as usual) since last Exec
  • Sept. 25th and Oct. 29th
  • plus the hybrid meeting that just happened (Goerlitz, 13 Oct. 13:30 UTC)
• 2025 Northern Fall's Interop's program has been prepared and discussed
• work has progressed on documents (on track docs here, see others below)
  • VOEvent-2.1: waiting a few changes before TCG re-review
  • StandardRegExt -1.1 (that has been approved by Exec)
  • MANGO-1.0 undergoing review
  • DALI-1.2 has just started RFC
  • DocRegExt -1.0 has just started RFC
  • DataOrigin -1.1 has been proposed as PEN
  • work in ongoing at various level in Vocabularies
    • full vocabularies
    • VEPs
    • UCDs vocabularisation
• Radio & HE (&TD) ObsCore exts. are progressing
  • dedicated meetings and session
• astronet.ru decision
• IGs coordination roles still to be discussed (but planned)
• TCG pinged about roadmap preparation (and potentially thinking if it needs changes)
• Documents Standards will need some time and brainstorm to get to something useful
  • tech-side might provide us some hints
  • see "dedicated" session on Sunday

Report from the CSP