IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM37)

Monday September 20 2010 @ 15.00 GMT

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Logistics

Telecon:

Agenda - TBD

1. Roll Call and Agenda (MA)
2. Minutes of FM36, Minutes of FM36S (PP)
3. Review of Actions (MA)
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
6. TCG status (CA)
7. KDD Chair, VOEvent vice-Chair, TCG vice-Chair on POC (all)
8. Possible new IVOA members (PP)
9. Inactive IVOA members (PP)
10. Proposal for an IVOA Education Interest Group (CC)
11. Proposal of a joint technical session with IPDA at next interop (CA/MO)
12. IVOA Documents Approval by TCG and Exec (PP, all)
13. Future Interops (MO, FP)
14. Date of Next Exec Meeting
15. AOB
16. Review of Action Items (MA)

Reports from the Projects

ArVO

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AstroGrid

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Australia-VO

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BRAVO

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China-VO

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CVO

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Euro-VO

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France VO

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GAVO

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HVO

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Japan-VO

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Korean VO

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RVO

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SVO

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VAO

The VAO officially got started with the award of an NSF Cooperative Agreement to the VAO, LLC on 15 May 2010. Over the summer months all attention was focused on developing a Program Execution Plan (PEP) for submission to NSF and NASA by 13 August 2010. This was completed on time and copies were shared with the IVOA Executive. The VAO team is now engaged in assigning the tasks and activities in the PEP to the individuals who will be actively engaged in the work. The VAO will hold its first team meeting on 30 Sept/1 Oct 2010 at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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VObs.it

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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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Data Access Layer WG

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Data Models 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

Significant work has been done on the VOEvent v2.0 working draft since Victoria. We plan to release this for comment within the WG in a few weeks. Editing in progress on the Hotwired book. R. Williams chaired the Transient Infrastructure session at the LSST all hands meeting in Tucson - immediately before LSST was announced as the #1 priority of the US Decadal Survey. (VOEvent is baseline technology for LSST.) R. Seaman and R. Williams will conduct a tutorial, "Techniques in Time Domain Astronomy" at the Boston ADASS. Interesting conversations continue with various time domain projects, e.g., through several well attended sessions on time domain aspects of observatory operations at the San Diego SPIE. VOEvent infrastructure is being maintained and extended. IAU Comms. 5 & 6 have reported back to the IAU Exec regarding their positions on a task group addressing the CBAT question. -- RobSeaman - 16 Sep 2010

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VOQL WG

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VOTable WG

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Data Curation and Preservation IG

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Knowledge Discovery in Databases IG

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Theory IG

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