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---+ IVOA Operations Interest Group

<br />%TOC% Chair (Interim): [[TomMcGlynn][Tom McGlynn]] <br />Vice Chair: TBD

---++ IVOA Operations Interest Group Charter
---+++ Goal of the IVOA Operations Interest Group

Coordinate and publicize activities of individuals, institutions and groups interested in facilitating robust operations of distributed astronomy applications, particularly those based upon implementations of IVOA protocols.
---+++ Specific responsibilities
   1 Publicize existing forums and encourage new ones for monitoring services, notifications, discussions and questions regarding &ldquo;real-time&rdquo; operations of VO / distributed services.
   1 Promote discussion within the IVOA on standards and practices that would increase the reliability of VO implementations.
   1 Develop nominal implementation strategies for VO services as guides to best practice in the operational use of VO protocols.
   1 Periodically provide reports to the IVOA executive and WGs summarizing availability, quality and usage statistics for distributed services and VO protocols.
   1 During the IVOA standards review process, assess the validation capabilities that are now required as part of new standards.
---++ Organisation

Interim Chair: Tom McGlynn

<span style="color: #630000; font-size: 18.8500003814697px; line-height: 1em; background-color: #f6f6f6;">Mailing list</span>

   $ ops@ivoa.net: Operations Interest Group discussion forum ([[http://www.ivoa.net/mailman/listinfo/ops][archive]])
---++ Operations sessions
   * General discussion of operational issues of VO services
   * Monitoring and validation reviews of VO services
   * Development and deployment of validation services
   * Discussion of operational best practice in VO service deployment and operations.

---++ Links

<a href="http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/vo/external_monitor" title="VO monitoring">VO Monitoring at the HEASARC</a>

<a href="http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/vo/validation" title="VO validation">VO Validation at the HEASARC</a>

<a href="http://voparis-validation.obspm.fr/index.php" title="Paris validators">Validators at VO/Paris</a>

[[http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/dalvalidate/csvalidate.html][Cone search validator at NCSA]]

[[http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/dalvalidate/siavalidate.html][SIA Validator at NCSA]]

---++ Documents

[[%ATTACHURL%/IVOAOpsCharter-v20150327.docx][IVOAOpsCharter-v20150327.docx]]: Charter for the IVOA Operations Interest Group
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