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IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM125)
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Time: 13:00 UTC
Zoom Link: https://aao.zoom.us/j/84831315252?pwd=TjJZb0VBRVgxcDZ1cVVqTENZMWNMZz09
Contents
Agenda
- Roll call and agenda
- Review and approval of TM125 Minutes
- Review of ACTIONS_for_TM126.pdf
- Report on the IAU General Assembly/Working Group
- Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
- Overall TCG Status [Standing Item]
- Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
- VOResource-1.2 (final approval after last quick changes: final PR available here
- CSP Report
- IVOA Website [New Standing Item]
- Future Interop meetings
- Northern Spring 2025 - Maryland, USA
- Northern Fall 2025 - Görlitz (ADASS dates: 9-13 November 2025, Interop held after ADASS)
- Date of next Exec meeting
- AOB
- Review of new actions
Reports from the Projects
NOVA (Argentina)
ArVO (Armenia)
ASVO (Australia)
BRAVO (Brazil)
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- The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and Zhejiang Lab successfully hosted the “AI-Empowered Astronomy for Open Science” conference from 7 - 9 April 2025 in Hangzhou, China. The event convened global experts to explore AI-driven infrastructure for astronomical mega-projects, emphasising sustainable and equitable solutions to transform research, education, and outreach. Representatives from 6 VO projects, including China-VO, ArVO, BRAV, RVO, SA3 and VO-India gathered at the conferences. Talk topics from VO projects cover AI applications in Astronomy, LLM, AI-empowered Outreach and Education, etc. A BOF on Scientific Education was initiated and chaired by Chenzhou Cui. Topics related to VO training and IVOA liaison group are also discussed at the event.
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ESA (Europe)
Euro-VO (Europe)
GAVO (Germany)
JVO (Japan)
Kazakhstan VO
NLVO (Netherlands)
OV-France
RVO (Russia)
SA^3 (South Africa)
SKAO (Square Kilometre Array Observatory; Australia & South Africa)
SVO (Spain)
USVOA (United States)
VO-India
VObs.it (Italy)
- worked on IVOA web assets (maintenance & updates)
- INAF participation in a big nation-wide project is turning out as a place where new standard implementations happened (trying to bring authors to showcase their work)
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- under the same project an activity started to identify metadata for simulation runs discovery: might have SimDM/SimDAL impact
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- under the same project an activity started to identify metadata for simulation runs discovery: might have SimDM /SimDAL impact
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- just after the last Exec (end of February / start of March) the VO was the topic for a lively session discussion at an INAF workshop and for a dissemination of the ongoing work at an ASI workshop on future developments for space based projects
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TCG met (vconf) twice since last Exec meeting
- 11 March - 14UTC
- 7 April - 21UTC
next vconf is planned on Tue. 6 May - 13UTC
- main goal: interop schedule and preparation
Activity on documents on track include:
- VOResource-1.2 (Exec approval request)
- VOEvent-2.1
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- Parquet in the VO - Note published
- ObsCore & Extensions (porting to ivoatex plus Radio, HE, TD IGs documents)
Recommendations discussion/activity highlights:
- ObsCore revision and Extensions discussion is continuously moving on and will see a plenary in College Park.
- Data Models modularity, levels/scope, and endorsement is an open discussion; another plenary planned for College Park.
- An effort is starting to discuss and promote guidelines about transitioning major versions (of protocols) in the Registry, server-side and client-side perspectives. There will be a discussion session with examples report in College Park.
- OPS IG / DAL / Apps are thinking about a convention to help providing common statistics on TAP (& other protocols) clients (agents) access.
- discussion is starting for a revision of the Documents Standard
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- web assets (web, docs, ...): looking forward to switching to the new website before College Park
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- GWS->DSP renaming ongoing, a few pages and links still need update
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- GWS->DSP renaming ongoing, a few pages and links still need update
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Interop preparation status:
- programme drafted, looking for further input
- 10 (parallel slots) still available
- heads count nearly definitive: ~40% TCG in person
- looking forward to solve session chairs at the next TCG
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