TCG Meeting (online) - Wed, Jul 26 2023 @ 13:00 UTC

• Attendees : Janet, Marco, Pierre, Adrian, James, Grégory, Mark C.-D., Mathieu, Jesus, Renaud, Tess, Gilles, Gus, Hendrik, Raffaele, Yihan, Steve, Tamara, François, Mark K., Markus, Rafael, Christophe, Francesca
• Regrets : Anne, Simon, Sara

Actions

• Existing
  • [ALL] - review SODA-1.0 Erratum 3 [DONE]
• New/Restated or modified
  • [ALL] - check on DataLink-1.1 RFC to prepare for the next TCG meeting

Agenda

(Annotated in Bold with meeting notes after session)

• Few Notes:
  • Home base for TCG : https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaTCG
    • JE runs a quick overview of the wiki page for the new people joining
  • ADASS Nov 5-9 (University of Arizona, Tucson); IVOA Nov 10-12; possibly TCG mtg on afternoon of the 9th
  • Northern Spring Interop - Sydney - week of May 12 - Simon initiated planning
• Review current Recs
  • PLS asks whether LOWER, UPPER, ILIKE, OFFSET should be a MUST in ADQL given all implementations seem to support them
    • GM opens an issue on the github repo accordingly: https://github.com/ivoa-std/ADQL/issues/94
  • PLS asks whether in VOUnits there's room for some more explicit examples on common units, like km/s
    • MD will look into that but also Norman is aware of such need
  • SODA Erratum 3 vote today
    • SODA-1.0 Erratum 3 is approved as of 2023-07-26
  • Dedicated discussion on the status and vote for DataLink-1.1 is forseen at the next TCG meeting
  • ADQL-2.1 status will be explained at the next TCG meeting
• 2023 Roadmap Status Review - https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/2023ARoadmap
  • Roadmap status
  • Let's review 2 WG / 2 IG Roadmaps
    • GWS and Apps WG roadmap overview
      • GWS: main topics before November will be ExecPlanner to WD status and a study phase on existing workflow languages and tools
      • Apps: cross-work with OGC on MOC/HiPS foreseen, Apps perspective on Science Platforms and continuous PyVO support
        • alert about ADASS session, referenced the SPICE frame solution
    • SSIG and OPS IG roadmap overview
      • SSIG: observation facilities and reference frames vocabularies and check what might be needed for EPN-TAP evolution
      • OPS IG: work on validation and health continues. Specific topics on ConeSearch & UCD1+, SSA errata and check on DALI evolution (DAL is aware of them all)
• AOB
  • MCD: Spectrum Data Model is ready for RFC, email alert TCG whether needs full formal reference implementation or if it's enough the implementation of the providers that requested the changes
  • JL suggests to allocate time at next interop to have presentations from data centers explaining their usage of Data Models
• Next TCG meeting:
  • Wed. Sep 06 @ 20:00 UTC (5 weeks)
  • IVOA Events page: https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaEvents