IVOA Member Organizations

See also the members page on ivoa.net: IVOA Members.

IVOA Interoperability

The main areas in which the IVOA needs to define standards to ensure the interoperability of the different VirtualObservatory projects currently underway were defined at the meeting in Seattle on 9-10 Jan 2003 (VOEvent has been added as of 22 Nov 2004). Those areas were:

Area	Page	Mailing list	Chair	Vice Chair
Working Groups:
Applications	IvoaApplications	apps@ivoa.net	TomDonaldson	RaffaeleDAbrusco
Data Access Layer	IvoaDAL	dal@ivoa.net	MarcoMolinaro	JamesDempsey
Data Model	IvoaDataModel	dm@ivoa.net	LaurentMichel	JesusSalgado
Grid & Web Services	IvoaGridAndWebServices	grid@ivoa.net	GiulianoTaffoni	ChristineBanek
Registry	IvoaResReg	registry@ivoa.net	TheresaDower	PierreLeSidaner
Semantics	IvoaSemantics	semantics@ivoa.net	MarkusDemleitner	CarloMariaZwoelf
Interest Groups:
Data Curation&Preservation	IvoaDCP	datacp@ivoa.net	AndreSchaaff	TimJenness
Education	Edu	edu@ivoa.net	ChenzhouCui	HendrikHeinl
Knowledge Discovery in Databases	IvoaKDD	kdd@ivoa.net	KaiLarsPolsterer	MatthewGraham
Theory	IvoaTheory	theory@ivoa.net	CarlosRodrigo	GerardLemson
Time Domain	IvoaVOEvent	voevent@ivoa.net	AdaNebot	DaveMorris
Operations	IvoaOps	ops@ivoa.net	MarkTaylor	SteveGroom
Solar System	IvoaSS	ssig@ivoa.net	BaptisteCecconi	StevenJoy
Other Groups / Committees:
Technical Coordination Group	IvoaTCG	tcg@ivoa.net	PatrickDowler	JanetEvans
Liaison Committee			MasatoshiOhishi
Standing Committee on Science Priorities	IvoaSciencePriorities		BrunoMerin
Standing Committee on Standards & Processes	IvoaStdsDocsProc	stdproc@ivoa.net	ChristopheArviset

Note: the mailing list archives can be viewed and the lists subscribed to at http://ivoa.net/forum/. Lists can be searched here.

See the Policy on IVOA Working Group/Interest Group Chairs and Vice Chairs for an explanation of the role of Chairs and Vice-chairs.

WG/IG Groups Contacts

In order to contact the Chairs of WGs and IGs, the following exploders can be used:

• wgchairs@ivoa.net (for WGs Chairs)
• igchairs@ivoa.net (for IGs Chairs)

Links

• IVOA contacts page
• IAU General Assembly Joint Discussion 8