TCG Meeting (online) - Thursday May 21 2026 @ 13:00 UTC

Attendees

• Attendees : Adrian, André, Brigitta, Gilles, Grégory, Gus, Janet, Joshua, Judy, JJ, Marco, Mark CD, Mark K, Markus, Mathieu, Pierre, Renaud, Shanshan, Steve, Tess, Tom
• Regrets : Francesca, Jesus, Sébastien, Tamara

Actions

• OPEN - (Marco) ask CSP about putting together a template for call for proposals (maybe model after DAL) still TODO, might discuss this with CSP in Strasbourg
• OPEN (Marco) draft list of standards to be moved to the obsolete section: ONGOING (see agenda)
• (GL) to make tag for DataOrigin EN via ivoatex feature "make tag" DONE
• (All) Please have a look at:
  • Propose topics for face-to-face TCG meeting in Strasbourg
  • ADQL 2.1 Erratum 1 likely uncontroversial: https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ADQL-2_1-Err-1
  • As part of VO Data Service 1.3, will be Data Source (towards identifying artificial and theory data). Not VEP, but please have a look: https://www.ivoa.net/rdf/data-source/2026-02-03/data-source.html
• OPEN: act on obsoleted RECs (~Marco w/ IVOADoc)

Agenda

• vconf devoted to finalise the interop's schedule
  • pointers
    • webpage: https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/3454
    • program page: https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpJune2026
    • program setup: https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ProgramPrep2026A
  • to be discussed
    • (seems easy): swap Edu with DCP on Thursday morning: sessions #12 & #13
      • agreed, morning is not optimal in any case for US but DCP has a session in the afternoon already
    • have DAL+DSP on Wed. (#10), leaving the DSP session parallel to Registry hack-a-thon (#14)?
      • keep DAL+DSP on Thursday, confirmed also by email with DSP
    • other clashes/changes?
  • topics for TCG face-2-face meeting

• ---possibly stop here---
  • actually done

• (standing item): documents on track
  • RFC
    • DALI-1.2 RFC page: RFC reminder
  • EN
  • Errata
    • • ADQL 2.1 Erratum 1: ADQL-2_1-Err-1
  • VEPs
    • • *As part of VODataService-1.3: data-source vocabulary (Not VEP)
        • towards identifying artificial and thoery data

• other topics (reminders or ongoing topics)
  • open positions and role rotations: keep in mind and send inputs (e.g. to your Exec reference)
    • positions still TBF
      • Radio IG vice-chair role is open
      • Edu IG vice-chair: open but something is moving
    • Coordination roles reaching nominal deadline
      • Registry, DCP: no extension
      • DM, DSP, Semantics, TD (deputy), Operations, SS (deputy), Radio (chair): extension possible
  • IGs coordination role at CSP: summary notes
  • solutions for roadmaps
  • document processes & connected concepts

• AOB

• Date for the next TCG
  • we will meet on
    • Sunday June the 7th
    • 10:00-12:00 + 14:00-16:00 CEST (Strasbourg's locale)
    • 08:00-10:00 + 12:00-14:00 UTC
    • in person at the Observatoire de Strasbourg, vconf link will be shared to remote attendees
      • Note: Marco is not sure to be able to provide a zoom room

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