IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM24)
Telecon: 12 July 2007 @ 15.00 GMT
Logistics
Telecon:
Agenda (DRAFT)
- Roll Call and Agenda
- Review of Minutes: Minutes of FM23 & Minutes of FM23Supp
- Review of Actions
- Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
- Status of the IVOA assessment (FG/DDY)
- WG/IG
- Standardisation process: RW to report on
- Status of the Assessment of Implementation of IVOA standards in Data Centres (DS/CA)
- Status of the preparation of the Cambridge Autumn 2007 Interop meeting (NW)
- Future Interop meetings
- IVOA presence at the next IAU General Assembly
- Schedule of other IVOA-related events (all)
- Date and Venue of the next Exec meeting (telecon?)
- AOB
- Summary of Actions
Reports from the Projects
ArVO
Australia-VO
China-VO
CVO
VObs.it (aka DRACO) Italy
Euro-VO
France VO
No report was posted on the FM23 web page. This report summarizes France-VO activities since TM22 (8 March 2007).
(1) France-VO supported French participants to the several
international meetings, from its own funds, in complement to funding by
the laboratories, or by evaluating funding requests made
in the frame of the French participation to the
Euro-VO Data Centre Alliance project.
French teams very actively participated in the Beijing
Interoperability meeting (18 French participants), with
talks presented in particular in the Applications, Data Access Layer,
Data Modeling, Semantics and VO Query Language WG
sessions, and at the Theory IG meeting.
There was also an active French participation to the two Workshops
organised by the Euro-VO Data Centre Alliance and Facility Centre.
The 'Astronomical spectroscopy and the Virtual Observatory'
Workshop (ESAC, 21-23 March 2007) was well attended by
scientists interested in spectroscopy and French VO teams (22
participants from French laboratories), thanks in particular to the
triggering activity of the France-VO Spectroscopy Working Group
at the national level. In addition, several laboratories
developing or willing to develop VO services were represented
at the 'Euro-VO Workshop on how to publish data in the VO',
and three sessions were organised by CDS staff.
(2) Meetings organised by the France-VO (AS OV) Working Groups since
February 2007:
- Theory Working Group: a Workshop was organised in Lyon on June 18-19, with participation from several teams preparing theory services to be published in the VO, and from Gerard Lemson, Chair of the IVOA Theory Working Group and of the Theory Expert Group of the EuroVO-DCA project. The meeting Web page (in English) can be found at http://www.france-vo.org/twiki/bin/view/GROUPEStravail/ObsVTheorie07jun18.
(3) Presentation to the general astronomy community
- Presentation of the VO project status and of services made available by the French VO teams at the annual meeting of the French astronomical society (pdf version, mostly in French).
- Staff from France-VO plan to participate in the JENAM 2007 meeting (Yerevan, August 2007) and in a Workshop organized by the Indian VO in October 2007.
GAVO
HVO
Japan-VO
Korean VO
NVO
Please see our previous report at
http://ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaExecMeetingFM23#NVO. The only addition at this point is that we are working with NSF and NASA to secure funding for FY08, and things look promising at the moment.
RVO
SVO
VO-India
Applications IG
Progress towards SAMP is going well.
Data Access Layer WG
Data Models WG
Grid and Web Services Working Group
Registry WG
Semantics/UCD WG
UCDs: collection of (minor) changes/improvements to the present std list v1.23 is going on.
A WD v1.24 will be probably issued within the end of 2007.
Ontology: work in progress, on the ontology and on use cases.
Standard Vocabulary: work in progress, a WD v1.0 will be issued before the September 2007 meeting.
VOEvent
VOQL WG
ADQL work
Advance has been done in the
ADQL document following some useful comments from Jeff Lusted from
AstroGrid. Region constructions discussions will be held at the next VOQL-TEG meeting.
Due to strong work constraints, the VOQL-TEG has not met since the last IVOA interoperability meeting. It will probably meet the first week of September.
TAP work
As stated before, there has not been VOQL-TEG meeting thus far, and therefore the TAP has not been discussed within the group. The VOQL chair has had conversations with the DAL chair in order to define the best way forward for the TAP. The outcomes will be announced shortly after consultation with the whole VOQL-TEG and with Doug Tody.
The prospect is that the first TAP draft will be available for presentation at the September meeting as per announced Roadmap in Beijing, shoul all eventual TAP-involved parties agree.
VOTable WG
Astro-RG IG
Data Curation and Preservation IG
DCP IG Chair Hanisch polled the interop e-mail list on 27 June to see how many people were interested in this IG. 18 responses were received, which is a sufficiently high level to warrant planning for an IG session at the September Interop meeting in Cambridge. Data preservation is also a key topic for the ADASS conference that immediately precedes the Interop.
Theory IG
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NicholasWalton - 29 Jun 2007