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IVOA Member Organizations

Acronym	VO Project/Country	Primary Contact
NOVA	Argentina Virtual Observatory	VACANT
ArVO	Armenian Virtual Observatory	Areg Mickaelian
AstroGrid	Virtual Observatory United Kingdom	Andy Lawrence
ASVO	Australian All-Sky Virtual Observatory	Simon O'Toole
BRAVO	Brazilian Virtual Observatory	Rafael Santos
China-VO	Chinese Virtual Observatory	Chenzhou Cui
ChiVO	Chile Virtual Observatory	Mauricio Solar
CVO	Canadian Virtual Observatory	JJ Kavelaars
ESA	ESA	Christophe Arviset
EURO-VO	European Virtual Observatory	Mark Allen
GAVO	German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory	Joachim Wambsganss
NLVO	Netherland Virtual Observatory	Yan Grange
JVO	Japanese Virtual Observatory	Yuji Shirasaki
KazVO	Kazakstan Virtual Observatory	Chingis Omarov
OV-France	Observatoire Virtuel France	Ada Nebot
RVO	Russian Virtual Observatory	Oleg Malkov
SA³	South Africa Astroinformatics Alliance	Patricia Whitelock
SKAO	S quare Kilometre Array Observatory	Antonio Chrysostomou
SVO	Spanish Virtual Observatory	Enrique Solano
UkrVO	Ukrainian Virtual Observatory	Irina Vavilova
USVOA	US Virtual Observatory Alliance	Pepi Fabbiano
VO-India	Virtual Observatory India	Ajit Kembhavi
VObs.it	Italian Virtual Observatory	Marco Molinaro

IVOA Interoperability

Most of the work of the IVOA is done within working or interest groups (WG/IG). Standards are produced under the auspices of the WGs, whereas the IGs typically cover specific topics and could be thought of as advisory committees. All WGs and IGs are open to participation by any interested member of the astronomical community.

Area	Page	Mailing list	Chair	Vice Chair

Working Groups:

Applications	IvoaApplications	apps@ivoa.net	Adrian Damian	Brigitta Sipőcz
Data Access Layer	IvoaDAL	dal@ivoa.net	Grégory Mantelet	Joshua Fraustro
Data Model	IvoaDataModel	dm@ivoa.net	Mark Cresitello-Dittmar	Mathieu Servillat
Grid & Web Services	IvoaGridAndWebServices	grid@ivoa.net	Jesus Salgado	Sara Bertocco
Registry	IvoaResReg	registry@ivoa.net	Renaud Savalle	Tess Jaffe
Semantics	IvoaSemantics	semantics@ivoa.net	Baptiste Cecconi	Sebastien Derriere


Interest Groups:

Data Curation&Preservation	IvoaDCP	datacp@ivoa.net	Gilles Landais	Gus Muench
Education	IvoaEducation	edu@ivoa.net	Shanshan Li	OPEN
Knowledge Discovery in Databases	IvoaKDD %ISNEW%	kdd@ivoa.net	Yihan Tao	OPEN
Theory	IvoaTheory	theory@ivoa.net	RESTING
Time Domain	IvoaVOEvent	voevent@ivoa.net	OPEN	Pierre Fernique
Operations	IvoaOps	ops@ivoa.net	Steve Groom	Tamara Civera
Solar System	IvoaSS	ssig@ivoa.net	Stéphane Erard	Markus Demleitner
Radio	IvoaRadio	radioig@ivoa.net	Mark Kettenis	Ricardo Rizzo
High Energy	IvoaHE	heig@ivoa.net	Bruno Khelifi	Janet Evans


Other Groups / Committees:

Technical Coordination Group	IvoaTCG	tcg@ivoa.net	Marco Molinaro	Tom Donaldson
Standing Committee on Science Priorities	IvoaSciencePriorities	csp@ivoa.net	Francesca Civano	Vandana Desai
Standing Committee on Standards & Processes	IvoaStdsDocsProc	stdproc@ivoa.net	Patrick Dowler
IAU-IVOA Liaison Committee	IvoaIauLiaison		Bruce Berriman

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

IVOA Member Organizations

IVOA Interoperability

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