IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM35)
*Tues Mar 2 2010 @ 16.00 GMT
Logistics
Telecon:
Agenda
- Roll Call and Agenda (MA)
- Minutes of FM34 Suppl., Minutes of FM34 (FP)
- Review of Actions (MA)
- Project Reports - Significant Events Only
- TCG status (CA)
- Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
- Expired/expiring Chairs (all)
- Program Organising Committee (SG)
- Standing Committee on Science Priorities (DDY)
- Proposal for IG on Data Mining (KDD-IG) (FP)
- ObsTAP project (DS)
- Educational aspects - regional experiences (all)
- Inclusion of new data in the VO - national strategies (all)
- Mailing lists (FP)
- Future Interops (DS/MO)
- AOB
- Date of Next Exec Meeting
- Review of New Action Items (MA)
Reports from the Projects
ArVO
Australia-VO
BraVO
China-VO
CVO
Euro-VO
France VO
GAVO
HVO
Japan-VO
Korean VO
NVO
The US VO project remains stalled as we await NSF funding. There has been some progress, however, in recent weeks, and it would seem that release of funds is imminent. Of course, we have had this impression a number of times in the past.
In the interim we are proceeding, using NASA funds already in hand, to maintain our core services and run regular testing of aliveness and compliance of VO services. We are also going ahead and convening the VAO Science Council, the group that will advise us on science priorities. The Council will meet at NASA Goddard on March 26-27. We are preparing presentations describing possible development activities in seven areas: 1) a cross-matched "master catalog" and advance cross-matching tools for users, 2) support for rapid transients, 3) much more extensive linking between data and publications, 4) robust data discovery and data mining, 5) a extended set of VO-enabled tools, including visualization, 6) integration of theoretical simulations and simulated observations, and 7) development of a "seamless" astronomical research environment.
The members of the Science Council are drawn from the US astronomical community and represent a variety of types of organizations and research interests. Several members have long-term connections to the VO, but most are from outside the VO project and we hope will bring a fresh perspective.
Pepi Fabbiano, chair, SAO
Daniela Calzetti, U.Mass.
Chris Carilli, NRAO
Zeljko Ivezic, U. Wash.
Eric Feigelson, Penn State
Paul Eskridge, Minn.State
Sarah Seager, MIT
Alyssa Goodman, Harvard
George Djorgovski, Caltech
Marc Postman, STScI
Barry Madore, Carnegie
RVO
SVO
VObs.it
VO-India
Applications WG
Data Access Layer WG
Data Models WG
Grid and Web Services Working Group
Registry WG
Semantics/UCD WG
VOEvent
VOQL WG
VOTable WG
Data Curation and Preservation IG
The DCP IG has basically been inactive for the past year, but DCP activities are now getting under way such that we can expect the IG to regroup. In the US, NSF's DataNet program has now funded two projects, DataOne and the Data Conservancy. The latter is lead by Johns Hopkins University and has a direct NVO/VAO connection.
Theory IG