IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM92)
when: Sep 15, 2020
Time: 14:30 (UTC)
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Draft Agenda TM92
1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of
TM923. Review of Exec
ACTIONS4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Overall CSP report
6. Overall TCG Status
7. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
8. Working group/Interest group nominations (from May 2020)
9. Last meeting request from TCG
- Request of the Exec is to make resources available who are able to prototype code exercising data models in applications utilities. These resources can work either directly with the data model teams, or via the applications working group.
10. IAU-OAD project "Astronomy from Archival Data" partnership with IVOA
11. CODATA initiatives on units of measure
12. Future Interop meetings:
- "Granada" virtual meeting organization
- 2021 meetings
13. AOB
14. Date of next Exec meeting
15. Review of New Action Items
Reports from the Projects
Argentina-NOVA
Australia-VO
BRAVO
China-VO
CVO
Euro_VO
ESA
France VO
GAVO
HVO
JVO
RVO
SA^3
SVO
Vo-India
Vobs.it
Ukraine_VO
USVOA
Report from the TCG
- License on docs - CC-BY-SA proposed for docs, no license on Notes, Vocab gets CC-0
- 3 Proposed DAL Errata for DataLink -1.0 & 1 proposed erratun for ADQL-2.0 -- Approved by TCG
- Reviewed upcoming tasks on ROADMAP (2020A) ( https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/2020ARoadmap )
- Highlights for WGs:
- Apps: VOTable 1.5
- DAL: DataLink 1.1, ADQL 2.1, ConeSearch 1.1, ObsTAP/ObsVisSAP - all on Fall timeframe
- DM: Meas/Coords/Transform models heading for RFC2 (see issue below), Source Model continuing
- GWS: Auth & Authz - Fall timeframe; Moving Science platforms forward
- Registry - Ongoing Operations; VODataService 1.2
- DM : Meas/Coords models and preparing for RFC2
- Long discussion at TCG meeting on Jun 11; reinforced need for software implementation of DMs before REC approval; Shows reviewers that models are designed in support of a problem it is meant to solve
- Current Case: Meas/Coords for the core of the NDCube use case from the CSP; they also have had substantial prototype work indicating they are extensible to satisfy the needs of additional use cases such as Time Series and Source Catalogs. It's primary forcus is on representing data (Serializations).
- Many projects (like the recently approved Provenance model), have application as the primary focus, and have software implementations built in by the contributors from the beginning.
- Request of the Exec is to make resources available who are able to prototype code exercising data models in applications utilities. These resources can work either directly with the data mode teams, or via the applications working group.
- Fall Interop - will be Virtual given continued travel restrictions and ADASS decisions to be virtual; We can pick our own week
Report from the Working Groups
EduIG
The first EduIG VM was held successfully on Aug 31. At the virtual meeting we want to exchange experiences we made with remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic around the globe. Roughly following the COVID-19 outbreak timeline, 7 speakers were invited from 5 different continents to share their experiences and feelings. Feedback for the VM are very positive. It was the result of close collaboration among IVOA
EduIG, IAU DAEPO WG and IAU OAD office. Further collaboration projects were initiated at the workshop. The following discussion has started.