IVOA Technical Coordination Group

This Committee is formed by the Chairs of the Working and Interest Groups and includes the IVOA chairs and vice-chairs.

TCG Charter & History

The Charter is detailed here

The Chair/V Chair History is detailed here

Working Groups
	Chair	Vice-Chair
TCG	Janet Evans	Marco Molinaro
Applications	TBD	Adrian Damian
Data Access Layer	James Dempsey	Gregory Mantelet
Data Model	Laurent Michel	Jesus Salgado
Grid and Web Sevices	Giuliano Taffoni	Dave Morris
Registry	Renaud Savalle	Tess Jaffe
Semantics	Markus Demleitner	Carlo Maria Zwoelf
Interest Groups
Data Curation & Preservation	Gilles Landais	TBD
Education	Hendrik Heinl	Giulia Iafrate
Knowledge Discovery	Raffaele D'Abrusco	Yihan Tao
Operations	Mark Taylor	Steve Groom
Radio Astronomy	Mark Lacy	Francois Bonnarel
Solar System	Anne Raugh	Baptiste Cecconi
Theory	Gerard Lemson	Simon O'Toole
Time Domain	Brent Miszalski	Mark Cresitello-Dittmar
IVOA Committees
Exec	Bruce Berriman	Séverin Gaudet (acting)
Standard and Processes	Patrick Dowler
Science Priorities	Ada Nebot	Francesca Civano
Inactive Working Groups
VOTable	Assigned to Apps WG
VO Query Language	Merged with DAL in May 2010
VOEvent	Transformed into Time Domain IG in Oct 2012

The current version of the IVOA Architecture Note (01 Nov 2021) can be found here

Note: Up-to-date architecture diagrams can be generated from with the ivoatex package. The complete inout filr with all RECs and some pre-RECs can be found in the IVOA Architecture document source: https://github.com/ivoa-std/architecture

Standard Title	Short Name	RFC Page	RFC period
Standard Title	Short Name	RFC Page	TCG Review	Rec to Exec
EPN-TAP	PR-EPN-TAP-2.0	EPNTAPV20RFC	2021-09-30 to 2021-11-14
Measurements	PR-Meas-1.0	MeasRFC2	2022-02-24 to 2022-04-10
Coordinates	PR-Coords-1.0	CoordsRFC2	2022-02-24 to 2022-04-10
Photometry Data Model	PR-PhotDM-1.1	PhotDM11RFC	2022-03-07 to 2022-04-22

Simple Spectral Lines DM	SSLDM-2.0	SSLDM	frozen

For WG chairs convenience,

Please find here a Template RFC page that can be used to create new RFC pages for a specific standard.
List of steps for the Standard Promotion Process
See here the Current IVOA Standards Status

Title	Errata Page	TCG Review
SLAP v.1.0 Erratum 1: No longer require an invalid UCD	SLAP-1_0-Err-1	approved 2022-04-20
ObsCore v.1.1 Erratum 3: Drop obs_id non-NULL requirement	ObsCore-1_1-Erratum-3	WG

Title	Note Page	TCG Review
UCD1+ 1.5	UCD1+ Dedicated VEPs currently 4(7) pending	WG
Adopting the UAT as an IVOA Vocabulary	UAT upstream 1.0	TCG

ID	action	term	label	VEP text	status
VEP-009	Modification	datalink/core#progenitor	Progenitor	VEP-009.txt	WG
VEP-013	Addition	date_role#inspected	Inspected	VEP-013.txt	approved 2022-04-20

Status column definitions,

WG means dicussions are underway
TCG means that TCG members should review and be prepared to vote at the next TCG meeting (telecon or face-to-face)
PASS/Date is when TCG reviewed and approved the errata
Note: Row will be removed in table by TCG VCh after Errata has made it to Doc&Stds pages - reviewed periodically during TCG mtg prep

2022A Roadmap - development activities by the various IVOA working and interest groups in 2022 between the Apr 2022 and Oct 2022 Interops.
Previous Years Roadmaps - 2021B Roadmap, 2021A Roadmap, 2020B,2020A,2019B,2019A,2018B, 2018A, 2017B, 2017A, 2016B, 2016A, 2015B, 2015A, 2014B, 2014A, 2013B, 2013A, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005

Topic attachments
I	Attachment	Action	Size	Date	Who
pdf	Arch-2021-09-14.pdf	manage	813.1 K	2021-09-16 - 21:26	PatrickDowler
pdf	TCG_ActiveStds.pdf	manage	63.8 K	2019-05-30 - 16:17	JanetEvans
xlsx	TCG_ActiveStds.xlsx	manage	13.1 K	2019-05-30 - 16:17	JanetEvans
pdf	VOArchitecture-IVOAStandards_20160506.pdf	manage	3843.5 K	2016-09-20 - 07:02	MatthewGraham
pptx	VOArchitecture-IVOAStandards_20160506.pptx	manage	439.9 K	2016-09-20 - 07:04	MatthewGraham