IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM52)
Telecon 12 Feb 2014
Contents
Logistics
Telecon: 12Feb2014
@11am EST
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Agenda
- Roll Call and Agenda (JE)
- Minutes of FM50 and TM51
- Review of FM50 and TM51 Actions (JE)
- Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
- TCG status
- WG Reports
- Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
- IVOA Exec representative changes - Brazil, Argentina
- IVOA Web pages and Document Repository
- May Interop - Focus session planning
- Revision of the IVOA membership documents
- Coupling of IVOA Interop and ADASS - Fall Banff update; 2015 Sydney update
- Review response to mail list use for discussions
- Date of Next Exec Meeting
- AOB
- Review of Action Items (JE)
Reports from the Projects
Argentina - NOVA
ArVO
AstroGrid
Australia-VO
BRAVO
China-VO
ChiVO
CVO
Euro-VO
ESAVO
France VO
GAVO
HVO
VObs.it
Japan-VO
Ukraine VO
VAO
RVO
South Africa VO
South African Astroinformatics Alliance (SA3) The Sothern African Large Telescope (SALT) Virtual Observatory Data Archive System (VODAS) is now available. SALT-VODAS allows users to search the SALT data archive for all publicly available SALT data. This includes data from commissioning proposals, included the High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS which is still being commissioned), all calibration data taken with SALT, and data from any proposal past its proprietary period. SALT-VODAs was developed in a collaboration between SAAO, SA
3 and VO-India. Users can access VODAS from
http://vodas.salt.ac.za/. This is first time data from any South African telescope has been made public.
SA
3 and CDS, with help from SA Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC), has installed a mirror copy of
VizieR, the CDS catalogue querying service, at the CHPC in Cape Town and is the process of testing it before making a public announcement. In addition to the primary site in France,
VizieR mirrors are already functioning in Japan, Canada, India, UK, Russia, China and USA, but this is the first in the southern hemisphere.
Patricia Whitelock
February 2014
SVO
VO-India