IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM97)

when: May 4, 2021

Time: 2pm (UTC)

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Agenda TM97

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of TM96
3. Review of Exec ACTIONS
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Overall TCG Status
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
7. Future Interop meetings
8. CSP Status (BM)
9. IVOA renewals:
   • New Exec Chair and vice Chair
   • TCG WG/IG
10. IVOA support on archiving the Arecibo heritage data (BB)
11. IVOA presentation to the ODS Inter-Relational Subcommittee (BB)
12. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Catalog to Support Open Science (BB)
13. AOB
    • NLVO membership
      
    • Scientific Committee of the WDS - Call for nomination open until 12-May-2021:
14. Date of next Exec meeting
15. Review of New Action Items

Reports from the Projects

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO (ASVO)

BRAVO

China-VO

ChiVO

CVO

CADC has placed a deposit on the venue ADASS-2022 in Victoria. We are working with University of Toronto and University of Victoria to host this meeting. Due to long-lead times for conference venues the ADASS-2022 LoC is requesting details on possible IVOA Interop attached to ADASS-2022 (incuding possible executive session). The Interop is being planned for the days before the ADASS-2022 meeting at the same hotel as we have used for previous IVOA Interop in Victoria (Laurel Point)

CVO will be pursuing 'CoreTrustSeal' certification within a cohort of Canadian data repositories that are moving through this process together. Expect CTS process to finish by end of summer 2021.

Euro_VO

The Euro-VO activities are in part supported by the ESCAPE project (https://projectescape.eu). Work Package 4 of ESCAPE "Connecting ESFRI to EOSC using the Virtual Observatory" recently held a number of events:

• A Virtual Observatory School on Interoperable Data with 38 participants and 13 tutors. https://svo.cab.inta-csic.es/svoMeetings/index.php?mid=54&action=page&pagename=Meetings/SVO_thematic_network/First_ESCAPE_School/Presentation
• The 2nd "Technology Forum" - concentrated on the standards and tools for data providers to connect to the VO. Presentations from ESO, CTA, KM3NeT, EVN, ASTRON, EGO-Virgo show the various levels of progress in using the VO. VO tools and platforms have also been presented and discussed: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/23481/

ESA

France VO

OV-France held its annual meeting 22-23 March 2021 with strong participation of the French astronomy community: http://www.france-ov.org/twiki/bin/view/JOURNEESSpecifiques/Reunion2021

GAVO

HVO

JVO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Vo-India

VObs.it

Within the revision of all INAF projects promoted by the new President, VObs.it has been proposed as a "programme" (long-term project), coordinated and funded by INAF with the formal participation of ASI (SSDC - Space Science Data Center). Participants are 23 staff from 7 INAF sites, ASI-SSDC and the University of Padova. Evaluation is expected by the end of August.

In preparation for the proposal, two virtual meetings were organised: an information webinar (8 March) to update the community on the IVOA activities and accomplishments and on the VObs.it role (44 participants), and a workshop (28 April) for a technical discussion and preparation for the future events: the IVOA Interop and the ESCAPE/CEVO Hands-on Meeting for Data Providers (25 participants).

The Italian community was invited to participate in the newcomers' sessions organised on Monday 24 May during the Interop by the EduIG.

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

Report from the TCG

Interop planning underway - TCG met on April 20

• Interop is May 25-28 (Tu-Fri) - JE working schedule - session input request deadline for WG/IG was 4/23
• Pre-Interop Edu session on May 24 - Intro to the IVOA - Henrik/Dave Morris
  • Steve Groom reminded the group that we had discussed such a session in the past.
• 2 workshops within the Interop - GWS/Theory - Science Platforms (3 sessions) & DM - DataModel Workshop (3 sessions) - same time each day
• gather.town - Folks in Europe have used this social site for infomal meet ups during workshops - Henrik volunteered to set it up for the Interop; we'll give it a try
• Bruno suggested we get back with the astropy group - He's organizing a CSP session
• We have 133 participants as of this morning; 9 abstracts submitted (as of 4/30)
• Draft Schedule:
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1detnVOhJxft0X_brBEOkPeDNMxchVEZxfwMjxVcViD4/edit#gid=1330364190
  • Will move it to the official site in the next day
• Will send an email out to the Interop with another reminder and highlighting the program this week.