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---+ IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM48)

*Wednesday February 27, 2013 @ 16.00 UT*

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Telecon:

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   1 Roll Call and Agenda (MA)
   1 [[http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaRepMin/ivoa-tm47-20121213.pdf][Minutes of TM47]]
   1 [[%ATTACHURL%/actions-for-tm48-20130213.pdf][Review of Actions]] (MA)
   1 Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
   1 TCG status
   1 Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
   1 May 2013 Interop meeting
   1 Future Interops
   1 Date of Next Exec Meeting
   1 AOB
   1 Review of Action Items (MA)

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[From the VAO Quarterly Report for October-December 2012...]

VAO services continued their uptime performance from the previous quarter, running close to 100% for the entire time. Validation levels for worldwide VO services also continued to improve, up from 71% to 74%. Most of the non-compliance issues do not affect well-posed queries, but we continue to work with VO service providers to resolve minor compliance issues. An improved internal process for reviewing and responding to service interruptions and other help desk inquiries has brought ticket closure times to just a few days, with very few unresolved tickets.

VAO Community Days were held at the University of Michigan and Space Telescope Science Institute in November, each having 40-50 participants. VAO also had a strong presence at the ADASS Conference at the University of Illinois, had an exhibit at the AAS meeting in Long Beach, and presented twelve poster papers at the AAS meeting (including those of VAO collaborators such as the AAVSO). The technical expertise of the VAO staff has been recognized by the community through invitations to speak at conferences, participate in reviews and sit on advisory boards. The VAO continues to attract attention within the community, with growth in the mailing list, Facebook &ldquo;likes&rdquo; and Twitter feeds.

New releases of the Spectral Energy Distribution tool Iris (v1.2), the Data Discovery Tool (DDT) (v1.4.1), and the Scalable Cross-Comparison (SCC) tool (v1.1) were completed on December 19. Iris was enhanced to support third-party plug-ins, and provide enhanced visualization capabilities. The DDT release enhanced the presentation of the query results, the SCC release added new catalogs and added SAMP support to connect the tool to other VO-enabled tools.

The data publication and sharing infrastructure, VOBox, was demonstrated at the Long Beach AAS meeting, following improvements to the user interface.  Following community input, we began development of a Python API for access to VO services. This is now 50% complete, and further community feedback on the design was solicited during the AAS meeting. The beta release of the data-publishing interface has been reviewed internally, and a plan developed for making the optimally useful to new users and data publishers.

On October 5, 2012, Marie Huffman (business manager) left AUI. Maricel Claro (Robert Half Associates) assumed the position of interim business manager.

[Updates...]

VAO submitted its "close-out Project Execution Plan" to NSF and NASA on February 18, following review and approval by the VAO Board of Directors. The plan describes the work to be done between May 1 and the end of VAO funding, September 30, 2014. Per agency direction, the emphasis is on completing, documenting, and preserving the VO infrastructure. Top priorities are data cube support, the Python API, and registry upgrades. Work on VAO science applications (scaleable cross match, Iris SED tool, time series tools) will be stopped within two months, after which time only critical bug fixes will be undertaken. The data discovery tool will continue to be supported as a means for validating registry upgrades and discoverability of data cubes through the emerging IVOA standard.

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