IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM22)

Thurs Mar 8 2007 @ 15.00-16.30 GMT

Logistics

Telecon:

Agenda

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of TM21
3. Review of Actions
4. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
5. Status of the IVOA assessment (FG/DDY)
6. WG/IG/Standardisation process: RW to report on
   • Recommendation process
   • Nominations for vice chairs: DAL, others (DM?, Apps?)
   • Status report on Apps WG, SSA, SIA, VOQL, Characterisation
   • Preparation of the yearly TCG Coordinator report (due for May 2007 Interop)
7. Preparation of the review of the WG/IG chairs (due for May 2007 Interop) (FG/DDY/RW)
8. Status of the Assessment of Implementation of IVOA standards in Data Centres (DS/CA)
9. Status of the preparation of the Beijing Interoperability meeting (CC)
10. Status of the preparation of the Fall (2007) Interop meeting (NW)
11. Date and Venue of the next Exec meeting (Beijing)
12. AOB
13. Summary of Actions

Reports from the Projects

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

China-VO

CVO

VObs.it (aka DRACO) Italy

Euro-VO

France VO

GAVO

HVO

Japan-VO

Korean VO

NVO

RVO

SVO

VO-India

Reports from WGs & IGs(follows order as at http://www.ivoa.net/forum/)

Applications WG

Data Access Layer WG

Data Models WG

Grid and Web Services Working Group

Registry WG

Semantics/UCD WG

VOEvent

VOQL WG

The feedback summary report is given here.

The VOQL-TEG has celebrated three meetings so far:

VOQL-TEG Meeting #1 on Oct 10 2006
VOQL-TEG Meeting #2 on Nov 16 2006
VOQL-TEG Meeting #3 on Jan 29 2007

The minutes of the meetings can be found at:

http://www.ivoa.net/forum/voql-teg/0610/0009.htm
http://www.ivoa.net/forum/voql-teg/0611/0033.htm
http://www.ivoa.net/forum/voql-teg/0702/0058.htm

respectively.

A summary of the main decision to separate Language, Access and Specification can be found at the VOQL pages at:

http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaVOQL

As one of the first actions, a new refurbished ADQL document has been created to serve as a starting point for internal discussions. The document can be seen at:

http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaVOQL/ADQL-20070126.pdf

that you can see at the bottom of page:

http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaVOQL

All the discussions that have taken place so far within the VOQL-TEG can be found at:

http://www.ivoa.net/forum/voql-teg/

VOTable WG

Astro-RG IG

Data Curation and Preservation IG

Theory IG

-- NicholasWalton - 19 Feb 2007