IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM43)

Tuesday February 07 @ 17.00 CET

Logistics

Telecon

Agenda TM43

1. Roll Call and Agenda (MA)
2. Minutes of FM42 and FM42S
3. Review of Actions
4. Project Reports - Significant Events Only
5. Report of the TCG meeting and TCG status (CA)
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
7. WG Chairs and vice-Chairs with expiring terms
8. May 2012 Interop
9. Future Interops (All)
10. CSP status (MA)
11. Date of next telecon
12. AOB
13. Summary of Actions (MA)

Reports from the Projects

Argentina - NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

LAMOST pilot sky survey data was public released with VO supports in last November. Designed and developed by the China-VO, the data access platform supports VOTable outputs and limited VO DAL interfaces. Aladin, WWT and other VO compliant tools are recommended to LAMOST scientific users for cross-matching and analyzing.

China-VO became a partner of BOOTES (Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System) project. Bootes-4, the fourth robotic autonomous observatory in the telescope network, was installed at Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, southwest of China. The construction and operation of the robotic observatory will provide nice opportunities to learn and test time-domain astronomy related technologies.

China-VO and Astroinformatics 2011 was held successfully from Nov. 9 to 13, 2011, which was the 10th anniversary VO workshop started from 2001. More than 70 participants attended the workshop. Prof. George Djorgovski and Dr. Yan Xu were invited to give lectures at the event.

CVO

Euro-VO

ESO-VO

ESAVO

France VO

GAVO

HVO

Japan-VO

Ukraine VO

VAO

RVO

SVO

VObs.it

VO-India

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

Applications WG

SAMP v1.3 completed RFC period with one (minor, but interesting) comment. A small change to the text was made to accommodate it. Now in TCG review period, scheduled to complete 27 Feb 2012.

Data Access Layer WG

Data Models WG

Grid and Web Services Working Group

Registry WG

Semantics/UCD WG

VOEvent

VOTable WG

Data Curation and Preservation IG

Knowledge Discovery in Databases IG

Theory IG