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

Manpower: 10 FTEs (one less than in the previous report). The SVO Thematic Network (people from Spanish institutes with interest in the VO) is composed of almost 200 participants from more than 30 labs.

Web page: New design of the SVO official web page.

VO-compliance of astronomical archives:

- Official release of the GTC VO archive (http://gtc.sdc.cab.inta-csic.es/gtc/index.jsp)

VO Science:

- Identification of red high proper-motion objects in Tycho-2 and 2MASS catalogues using Virtual Observatory tools (Jiménez-Esteban, Caballero, et al. (includes Solano) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012arXiv1201.5315J

Applications:

- VOSED: a Virtual Observatory tool to build and analyze SEDs (Gutiérrez, Solano, et al.) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011hsa6.conf..776G

Outreach:

- The citizen-science project "Identification of Near Earth Asteroids using VO tools" (http://www.laeff.cab.inta-csic.es/projects/near/main/?&newlang=eng) is running smoothly: 3,000 registered users have made 120,000 measurements on 7,000 SDSS images.

- Oral presentation "The Virtual Observatory and the amateur community" (http://www.astrosabadell.org/html/pdf/en/programa-convencio2011.pdf)

Education:

- VO school (http://svo.cab.inta-csic.es/svoMeetings/index.php?mid=31&action=page&pagename=Meetings/RoPACS_VO_School/Presentation) in the framework of the RoPACS project (http://star.herts.ac.uk/RoPACS/)

- The Wikipedia pages on "Virtual Observatory" and "Spanish Virtual Observatory" have been updated (both in Spanish).

- The Virtual Observatory in the classroom (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011hsa6.conf..797A)

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