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IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM48)

Wednesday February 27, 2013 @ 16.00 UT


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Logistics

Telecon:

Draft Agenda

  1. Roll Call and Agenda (MA)
  2. Minutes of TM47
  3. Review of Actions (MA)
  4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
  5. TCG status
  6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
  7. May 2013 Interop meeting
  8. Future Interops
  9. Date of Next Exec Meeting
  10. AOB
  11. Review of Action Items (MA)

Reports from the Projects


Argentina - NOVA


ArVO


AstroGrid


Australia-VO


BRAVO


China-VO

The last several months are a good time for the China-VO. At the beginning of 2013, two proposals submitted to NDRC (National Development and Reform commission) and CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) were approved. With the support of the two funding, the China-VO will be going to build an Astronomical Resource Planning platform for the astronomical community and telescopes in China. Tasks such as observation time application, proposal review, data archiving, data release and sharing, scientific discovery collection, will be (or demanded) done on the platform. The platform will provide proposal submission, data access, limited data processing and data mining, and maybe more functions, to astronomers. If the platform can be realized in 2 or 3 years as current aims, it will become an essential cyber infrastructure in China for Astronomy. Achievements from the IVOA and VO partners will be adopted heavily by the platform.


Another milestone for the China-VO in education and public outreach, the proposal to build a WWT-driven planetarium in a primary school in Chongqing is just approved. The planetarium is 8 meter in diameter, will be equipped with 6 high resolution projectors and driven by Microsoft WorldWide Telescope. The project will be taken by the China-VO (especially NAOC and CCNU), Microsoft Research, and a local company. When it is completed in the summer, it will be the first in China and the third in the world WWT-driven planetarium.


CVO


Euro-VO


ESAVO


France VO


GAVO

GAVO is still working actively on the new, relational specification for querying the registry, "RegTAP". The specification has been updated for a new utype scheme, and there is now a first mirror of the implementation in Potsdam. With VObs.it, we're working on having a third, VODance-based mirror in Italy. Also, work on a web interface reproducing, roughly, the Registry interface of VODesktop, has begun.

We are also participating in the redefinition of utypes (just out: a document summarizing current utype practices), and we have taken up the development of a Provenance data model.

A new release of SPLAT was released in cooperation with Astrogrid (heirs). Expect another beta soon that includes support for the proposed getData operation for SSAP, as currently provided by services at the Heidelberg and Ondrejov data centers.

We have also started the update of the EuroVO census of data centers, and of course we're busy preparing the May Interop and the EuroVO Data Center Forum in June.


HVO


VObs.it


Japan-VO


Ukraine VO


VAO

[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 “likes” 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.


RVO


South Africa VO


SVO

(Since Dec 2012)

Manpower: 8 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.

VO-archives:

  • Solano, E. et al.
    • The Gran Telescopio Canarias and Calar Alto Virtual Observatory compliant archives
    • SPIE: Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems IV. Amsterdam, June 2012
    • 2012SPIE.8448E..0GS
  • Solano, E. et al.
    • The Virtual Observatory and the Gaia archive
    • Meeting of the Gaia Spanish Network. Sitges, Barcelona. January 2013
VO-Science:

  • Sánchez-Janssen, R. et al.
    • Title: AVOCADO. A Virtual Observatory Census to Address Dwarfs Origins.
    • Astronomy and Astrophysics (accepted) 2013arXiv1301.5320S
  • López Martí, B. et al.
    • Title: Proper motions of young stars in Chamaeleon. I. A Virtual Observatory study of spectroscopically confirmed members
    • Astronomy & Astrophysics 2013 551, 46
  • Cappetta, M. et al.
    • Title:The first planet detected in the WTS: an inflated hot Jupiter in a 3.35 d orbit around a late F star
    • MNRAS 2012 427, 1877

Data Mining:

  • Sarro L.M., et al.
  • Sarro L. M., et al.
    • Title: Properties of ultra-cool dwarfs with Gaia. An assessment of the accuracy for the temperature determination
    • 2013A&A...550A..44S
  • Rimoldini, L. et al.

Outreach:

  • Solano, E. et al.
    • Title: Precovery of near-Earth asteroids by a citizen-science project of the Spanish Virtual Observatory
    • AN (accepted) 2013arXiv1302.5375S
  • Conference:
    • Title: Identify potentially hazardous asteroids using the Virtual Observatory
    • Science Museum, Logroño, Spain. Jan 2013
Education:

- Master course at Universidad Internacional de Valencia: "The Virtual Observatory". Jan 2013


VO-India



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