IvoaExecMeetingTM29 < IVOA

---+ IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM29)

*Thurs Aug 07 2008 @ 15.00-16.30 GMT*

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---++ Logistics

Telecon: 

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   1. Roll Call and Agenda  NW
   2. [[%ATTACHURL%/ivoa-fm28-20080518.pdf][Minutes of FM 28]] and [[%ATTACHURL%/ivoa-fm28S-20080521.pdf][FM 28S]]
   3. Project Reports  Significant Events Only
   4. [[%ATTACHURL%/actions-for-tm29-20080807.pdf][Review of Action Items  NW]]
   5. Approval of New IVOA Recommendations  Standing Item
   6. WG and IG Updates  CA
      * TCG Charter Status  DD, CA
      * TCG Technical Assessment and Roadmap  DD, CA
      * DAL Activities at US-NVO  RH
      * VOTable Update and Action  RH
      * Other WG and IG Activities
   7. Fall Interop Status Report  RH
   8. Spring Interop Venue and Planning
   9. Date of Next Exec Meeting
   10. AOB 
   11. Review of New Action Items 


---++ Reports from the Projects

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---+++ NVO 
In coordination with our IVOA partners, the transition to V1.0 of the Registry Interfaces was implemented in April.  The transition was carefully planned so that all groups deployed the new services in synchrony.  Harvesting and replication are now working routinely, and the new registry is being used in support of the NVO data discovery portal.

All components of the data discovery portal have been tested separately and as working together, with results from one component being forwarded to others as appropriate.  The new registry interfaces caused some of the components to break, owing to changes in the way VO services with multiple access methods are represented in the registry.  These problems were largely resolved in this quarter, and a scientific testing team has been assembled.

Efforts within the team are increasing in the area of operations, with routine testing of registered VO services and feedback to service providers whose cone search or SIAP functions are failing or not fully compliant with VO standards.  Service providers are typically very responsive in correcting problems.
A comprehensive review of all NVO software products was conducted this quarter and discussed at the NVO team meeting (June 30/July 1) in Estes Park, CO.  All libraries, tools, and applications have been assessed for the quality of documentation, the extent of testing, and their utility for the VO in the long term.

As a result of extensive discussions at the IVOA Interoperability Meeting in Trieste, Italy in May, progress was made on the Table Access Protocol (TAP) and Astronomy Data Query Language (ADQL).  TAP is a much more general table and catalog search interface than the simple cone search, and will provide much needed capabilities for querying and comparing complex databases.  TAP will accept ADQL queries and will also have a parameter-based interface for simplicity of implementation and greater similarity to existing data access protocols.  The ADQL specification underwent revision following the RFC period and is now pending IVOA Exec review.  Two partial drafts of the TAP protocol will be merged, and the NVO team will be building several prototypes in order to validate the interface specification prior to the October IVOA Interop meeting.

Preparations for the September NVO Summer School, the fourth to be offered, are nearing completion.  Applications were received from over 60 people and 50 were accepted (the applicant pool was excellent this year).  The overall program has been prepared and work was nearing completion on updating the software packages and tutorials.

A second Newsletter was distributed to the NVO community mailing list in June.  Use of NVO tools in the astronomy community continues steady or increasing, with over 27 million hits on NVO websites and 168,000 user sessions thus far this year. 

For a full report of activities in the period April-June 2008, please see http://www.us-vo.org/pubs/files/FY08Q3.pdf.

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---+++ SVO 

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---+++ VO-India

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---++ Reports from WGs & IGs(follows order as at http://www.ivoa.net/forum/)
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---+++ Applications WG 


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---+++ Grid and Web Services Working Group 
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---+++ Registry WG 

 
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---+++ Semantics/UCD WG 



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---+++ VOEvent

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---+++ VOTable WG 



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----+++ Data Curation and Preservation IG

Nothing to report at this time.

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-- IVOA.NicholasWalton - 05 August 2008    




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