IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM47)

Thursday December 13 @ 16.00 UT (17.00 CET)

Contents

Logistics

Telecon

Agenda TM47

1. Roll Call and Agenda (MA)
2. Minutes of FM46S and FM46
3. Review of Actions
4. Project Reports - Significant Events Only
5. Report of the TCG status (SG)
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
7. Education IG Chair and Vice Chair
8. Data Curation and Preservation Vice Chair
9. VAO Board meeting and its impact on VAO priorities
10. May 2013 Interop
11. Future Interops
12. Date of next meeting
13. AOB
14. Summary of Actions (MA)

Reports from the Projects

Argentina - NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

CVO

Euro-VO

The Euro-VO Science Advisory Committee met in Paris on Nov. 23rd to discuss in particuular CoSADIE work programme.

The CoSADIE project organizes a School on scientific usage of the VO in Madrid, 2013, Feb. 5-7 (http://www.laeff.cab.inta-csic.es/projects/cosadie/main/index.php). It is expected to gather mainly PhD students and post-docs working in European countries. A Technology Forum will also be organized in Edinburgh in the coming months to discuss progress and collaborations on VO technical matters. A Data Centre Forum will be organised in Heidelberg in June 2013.

Preparation for the kick-off of the Research Data Alliance continues, with in particular a Workshop organized in Amsterdam by the European e-Infrastructure Reflexion Group on Nov. 3-4 (http://www.e-irg.eu/e-irg-events/workshop-3-4-december.html). F. Genova presented a contribution on "Lessons learnt from building the International Virtual Observatory" in a Working Group devoted to discuss RDA governance.

ESAVO

France VO

Working Groups of the France VO Specifc Action continued to organize meetings, with topics which take into account its multi-disciplinary coverage. A very well attended meeting was organised to discuss "New interfaces and new interactions" on Nov. 26th (http://www.france-ov.org/twiki/bin/view/GROUPEStravail/InterfacesInteractionsMeeting1) in Paris (IAP). The Workflow Working Group met in Meudon (Observatoire de Paris) on Nov. 29th ((http://www.france-ov.org/twiki/bin/view/GROUPEStravail/WorkflowReunion8, with among the topics PDL, AstroTaverna, Wf4Ever, workflows in HELIO and Europlanet and in VAMDC. The annual meeting of the "OV-Planeto" Working Group will be held on Dec. 10th in Paris (Paris Observatory).

GAVO

HVO

VObs.it

Japan-VO

Ukraine VO

VAO

RVO

South Africa VO

SVO

(Since Oct 2012)

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

Outreach:

- Invited talk at the Spanish meeting of amateur astronomers (http://www.congresoastronomia.es/conferencias.html)

Education:

- The use case "Distance to the Crab Nebulae" available from the HoU-Spain web page.

- Master course at Universidad Complutense de Madrid: "The Virtual Observatory". Oct-Nov 2012

VO-India

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

Applications WG

Data Access Layer WG

Data Models WG

Grid and Web Services Working Group

Registry WG

Semantics/UCD WG

VOTable WG

Data Curation and Preservation IG

Education IG

Knowledge Discovery in Databases IG

Time Domain IG

Theory IG