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	Pierre Le Sidaner	Adrian Damian
Data Access Layer	James Dempsey	Gregory Mantelet
Data Model	Mark Cresitello-Dittmar	MathieuServillat
Grid and Web Sevices	Jesus Salgado	Sara Bertocco
Registry	Renaud Savalle	Tess Jaffe
Semantics	Baptiste Cecconi	Sebastien Derriere
Interest Groups
Data Curation & Preservation	Gilles Landais	Gus Muench
Education	Hendrik Heinl	Shanshan Li
Knowledge Discovery	Raffaele D'Abrusco	Yihan Tao
Operations	Steve Groom	Tamara Civera
Radio Astronomy	Francois Bonnarel	Mark Kettenis
Solar System	Anne Raugh	Markus Demleitner
Theory	Simon O'Toole	Giuliano Taffoni
Time Domain	Rafael Martinez Galarza	Pierre Fernique
IVOA Committees
Exec	Christophe Arviset	Simon O'Toole
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
Datalink v1.1	PR-Datalink-1.1	Datalink RFC	2023-04-21 to 2023-05-18
ADQL v2.1	PR-ADQL-2.1	ADQL RFC	2023-04-25 to 2023-06-20
VOUnit v1.1	PR-VOUnit-1.1	VOUnit RFC	2023-06-30 to 2023-09-30
SpectrumDM v1.2	PR-SpectrumDM-1.2	SpectrumDM RFC	2023-09-11 to 2023-10-23

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
Obscore 1.1 Erratum 4: Pin VODataService citation for data_rights to VODataService 1.1	ObsCore-1.1 Erratum 4	approved 2023-11-10

Title	Note Page	TCG Review
UDF Catalogue 1.1	PEN-udf-catalogue-1.1-20231010	endorsed 2023-11-10

ID	action	term	label	VEP text	status

VEP-009	Modification	datalink/core#progenitor	Progenitor	VEP-009.txt	frozen

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

2023B Roadmap - development activities by the various IVOA working and interest groups in 2023 between the Nov 2023 and May 2024 Interops.
Previous Years Roadmaps - 2023A Roadmap, 2022B Roadmap, 2022A Roadmap, 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	History	Action	Size	Date	Who
pdf	Arch-2021-09-14.pdf	r1	manage	813.1 K	2021-09-16 - 21:26	PatrickDowler
pdf	TCG_ActiveStds.pdf	r2 r1	manage	63.8 K	2019-05-30 - 16:17	JanetEvans
xlsx	TCG_ActiveStds.xlsx	r2 r1	manage	13.1 K	2019-05-30 - 16:17	JanetEvans
pdf	VOArchitecture-IVOAStandards_20160506.pdf	r1	manage	3843.5 K	2016-09-20 - 07:02	MatthewGraham
pptx	VOArchitecture-IVOAStandards_20160506.pptx	r1	manage	439.9 K	2016-09-20 - 07:04	MatthewGraham