IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM62)
TM62 - 24 Feb 2016 - 16:00 CET
Contents
Logistics
Wednesday, Feb 24, 2016 @16:00 CET
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Agenda TM62
- Roll Call and Agenda (JE)
- Minutes of FM61
- Review of Actions
- Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
- TCG status
- Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
- Review terms up for Expiration (See list below)
- Update on Northern Spring 2016 - S Africa (May 8-13)
- registration, logistics
- overall planning update
- plenary talks and focus sessions planning discussion
- CODATA/WDS international session planning
- Future Interops
- Northern Fall 2016 - Trieste, Italy (Oct 21-23; after ADASS)
- Northern Spring 2017 - Shanghai, China
- Date of Next Exec Meeting
- AOB
- Review of Action Items
List of term expirations:
The following position are due at the end of 2015
- Education Interest Group (Extendable)
The following positions will be coming due at the Northern Spring 2016 meeting:
- Theory Interest Group Chair (No extension)
- Time Domain Chair/Vice Chair (Extendable)
- Executive Committee Vice Chair
Argentina-NOVA
ArVO
AstroGrid
Australia-VO
BRAVO
China-VO
AstroCloud, the major scientific project of China-VO was concluded in December, 2015. During the last three years, supported by the
AstroCloud project funding, China-VO team established a comprehensive e-Science system for professional and amateur astronomical users. More than 10 telescopes (proposal management), tens of datasets (data access), 300 virtual machines from 5 distributed Cloud Computing nodes, and more than 15000 users are supported by the system. 5 supernova and one nova have been discovered by public users.
ChiVO
CVO
Euro_VO
ESAVO
France VO
GAVO
HVO
VObs.it
Japan-VO
RVO
SA^3
SVO
Ukraine_VO
USVOA
USVOA Activities
Held a face-to-face meeting at the Jan AAS; Presented an overview of the Sydney IVOA mtg to the group; a view of the VO from non-insiders: NSF, LSST, Radio astronomer; and US project experience/plans/sharing: IRSA, Keck,
EuroVO ASTERICS, Iris. Meeting presentations were posted on the USVOA web page:
https://hea-www.cfa.harvard.edu/USVOA/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/USVOA_AAS_Splinter.pdf
A spring USVOA telecon meeting is planned prior to the S. Africa IVOA.
NAVO ActivitesTAP/Registry at MAST is ready for deployment and is awaiting provisioning by the MAST operational personnel. This may still take several weeks. There has been some work in adapting an
ADQL parser obtained elsewhere to SQLServer.
S[IS]A at HEASARC - several SIA data services are now available. SSA services will be coming.
NED VO services - a March release of NED will clean up the database structures in ways needed for the ultimate SIA release.
IRSA VO activities - registry updates are in progress, notably those linking all tables to the IRSA TAP service.
NRAO
NRAO has released a VO-enabled Green Bank Telescope (GBT) spectral service. For details please see the article in the NRAO Newsletter (
https://science.nrao.edu/enews/9.1/index.shtml#gbt_spectra)
VO-India
Report from the TCG