Dear All, here is the action list from the last Exec meetings, plus those from the Boston Architecture meeting (23 may 2004). Yours, Nic ------------ ACTION ITEM UPDATE FOR IVOA MEETING#11 23 JUN 2004 ================================================== prepared by NAW 14 Jun 2004 Note: This also notes a number of actions resulting from the Architecture Group meeting held 23 May 2004 in Boston. (see end of list and noted ACTION-ARCH01-# ACTION FM4-7.3.2 DS/PQ: produce a position paper on issues related to data quality and data provenance. ONGOING: DS has produced and circulated a draft of this paper. PQ will be continuing this in the near future. All input welcome. ACTION FM7-4.1A PQ/ES/DS: develop a paper that defines what interfacing to a VO means from the point of view of a large project. Cases studies to include OWL, LOFAR etc. ONGOING: PQ had started discussions with a number of large projects such as ALMA. DB has also provided input from Australia. PQ will produce a draft. ACTION FM8-0A TL to circulate link to definitive IVOA draft license. CLOSED - replaced with new ACTION TM10-7.1 ACTION FM9-3A ML and WG Chairs: ensure full availability of IVOA WG drafts and agreed standards on the IVOA wiki and web site. ONGOING: need to wrap up conclusion on document policy (see discussion in TM10-section 6) ACTION FM9-3.1 RW - provide and upload UCD report to ML. CLOSED: UCD 1+ discussions occurred at InterOpMay2004. ACTION FM9-3.2A Doug Tody: progress the DAL SSA std to v0.9 (thus implementable) by 1 Apr 2004. ONGOING: Good progress occurred at InterOp May 2004. Doug Tody to update on schedule at June Exec meeting. ACTION: FM9-3.3A JM: v0.9 DM std is required by 1 May 2004 ONGOING: Good progress occured at InterOp May 2004. Jonathan McDowell to update on schedule at June Exec meeting. ACTION: FM9-3.3B WG Chairs: understand their WG area interactions with the Data Model (this includes the PQ/DS effort on data quality). CLOSED: good cross groups discussions at the Bost May 2004 InterOp meeting. ACTION FM9-3.5: issue registry harvesting std (schema) v0.9 by 1 Sep 2004. ONGOING: Good progress occured at InterOp May 2004. Tony Linde to update on schedule at June Exec meeting. ACTION FM9-5 PQ, BH, NW: generate a revised Roadmap by end March 2004. ONGOING: Draft presented at May Interop 2004. Agreement at June 2004 Exec meeting. ACTION FM9-8.2 NW: contact WG Chairs re GGF Astro-RG interaction. ONGOING: Next Astro-RG meeting at GGF12 Sep 20-23 2004 in Brussels. NW/MO to issue email before the Exec Meeting in June 04. ACTION FM9-10 ALL: Send to PQ ideas for engaging PhD students in the context of the VO and the IVOA. ONGOING: PQ to report on input at Exec meeting June 2004. ACTION TM10-0A: PQ to send out email to the WG Chairs that they need to return roadmap input to PQ by end April. (followup on ACTION FM9-3B) ONGOING: PQ to report on input at Exec meeting June 2004. ACTION TM10-4.2: NW to provide ivoa.net wiki page link to AK for InterOpOct2004. CLOSED: Pune InterOpOct2004 page at http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpSep2004 ACTION TM10-5 FG/NW - look at steps required to get IAU Symp approval for 2006 meeting. ONGOING: FG/NW to report on progress at Exec meeting June 2004. ACTION TM10-7.1 PQ: Raise license discussion as an agenda item at the June IVOA Exec meeting. CLOSED: Noted for agenda of June 2004 Exec meeting. ACTION ARCH01-1 Roy Williams/ Doug Tody/ Masatoshi Ohishi - report back on the need or otherwise to specifically accommodate VOQL and DAL areas as separate entities within the overall Architecture - this refers to the v0.4 document generate by RW for the May 2004 meeting. ACTION ARCH01-2 Roy Williams - bring forward update v0.9 IVOA architecture draft for the June 2004 Exec meeting. ACTION ARCH01-3 Regan Moore/ Francoise Genova - propose a Interest Group for Data Preservation and Curation at the Sep 2004 InterOp meeting. Circulate draft charter before that meeting. ACTION ARCH01-4 Guy Rixon - propose a revised Charter for the Grid and Web Service WG for the June Exec meeting. This to clarify the current scope of the G&WS-WG - especially as to workflow, authentification, virtual storage. ACTION ARCH01-5: Jonathon McDowell - define Data Model work group area. This action reflects the need to fully define the scope of this work area. ACTION ARCH01-6: Roy Williams - bring forward a revised UCD-WG Charter by the Sep 2004 InterOp meeting to incorporate ontologies and semantics ACTION ARCH01-7: PQ - distribute the draft IVOA Business/Strategy Plan. This was done end May 2004. ACTION ARCH01-8: FG/BH/NW/Ajit Khembhavi - generate draft schedule for Sep 2004 InterOp meeting. This is ongoing - see http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpSep2004 ======================================================================== Dr N. A. 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