IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM99)
when: July 20, 2021
Time: 1pm (UTC)
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Topic: IVOA Exec TM99
Time: Jul 20, 2021 01:00 PM Universal Time UTC
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Agenda TM99
- Roll Call and Agenda
- Minutes of TM98
- Review of Exec ACTIONS (ALL DONE)
- Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
- Overall TCG Status
- Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
- Future Interop meetings
- CSP Status
- Nomination of new Chair of the Standing Committee on Standards and Processes
- Nomination of new chair of the Media Group
- Discussion on landing web page updates (BB)
- Date of next Exec meeting
- Review of New Action Items
Reports from the Projects
Argentina-NOVA
Australia-VO (ASVO)
BRAVO
China-VO
CVO
Euro_VO
ESA
France VO
GAVO
HVO
JVO
RVO
SA^3
SVO
Vo-India
VObs.it
VObs.it is now considered as a "programme" (long-term project) by INAF, that provides coordination and a certain amount of funding through its ICT Office. The VO has been included in the INAF Medium-Term Plan (PTA) as a key topic.
Participation in VObs.it has been extended, besides INAF, ASI (SSDC - Space Science Data Center)
and University of Padova, also to INFN. VObs.it virtual meetings are organised on a regular basis, with an average of 25 participants.
The IVOA responsible for Documentation (Giulia Iafrate) filled in temporarily for Deborah Baines as editor of the IVOA Newsletter.
Ukraine_VO
USVOA
Report from the TCG
o Had a kick off meeting (6/16) with new members .... got thru a few logistics & reviewed the TCG web page & links
o TCG working 2021A Roadmaps - all WGs completed
o Janet/Marco sent what we plan to be a monthly newsletter to TCG for July - highlights, action reminder, few notes
o New Standard ->
ObsLocTAP 1.0 was officially approved by the TCG on 7/7 - Passed on spreadsheet to Exec Ch/VCh last night for Exec review
o UCDList v.1.4 Note agreed by TCG; moved to Git repo
o Provided an Interop review Newsletter article; Reviewing current draft o DM group worked since the Interop to conclude the workshop; held wrapup meeting 7/13; sent conclusions and outlined path forward - very succesful
(merged syntax for annotation that had been lanquishing since 2018; outlined steps forward in roadmap)
o MM assisting TCG with Github repos and a leading policy and guidelines in authoring documents using ivoatex and git with a small team of TCG experts.
o TCG requests a KDD Vice Chair?? I solicited the TCG for names but have not received any.
o Next TCG meeting - Aug 25
@20:00 UTC