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IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM61)

TM61 - 21 Dec 2015 - 16:00 CET

Contents

• IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM61)
  • Logistics
  • Agenda
  • Reports from the Projects
    • Argentina - NOVA
    • ArVO
    • AstroGrid
    • Australia-VO
    • BRAVO
    • China-VO
    • ChiVO
    • CVO
    • Euro-VO
    • ESAVO
    • France VO
    • GAVO
    • HVO
    • VObs.it
    • Japan-VO
    • Ukraine VO
    • USVOA
    • RVO
    • SA^3
    • SVO
    • VO-India
  • Report from the TCG
  • Reports from the WGs

Logistics

Monday, Dec 21, 2015 @16:00 UTC

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Agenda TM61

1. Roll Call and Agenda (JE)
2. Minutes of FM60
3. Review of Actions
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. TCG status
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]

1. Committee on Science Priorities Terms of Reference
2. Committee on Standard and Processes
3. New distribution channels (via social media?) for the IVOA Newsletter and IVOA activities in general to reach a wider community
4. Review terms up for WG / IG Expiration (See list below)

1. Future Interops
   • Northern Spring 2016 - S Africa (May 8-13)
   • Northern Fall 2016 - Trieste, Italy (Oct 21-23; after ADASS)
2. Date of Next Exec Meeting
3. AOB
4. Review of Action Items

The following position are due at the end of 2015

• KDD Interest Group
• Education Interest Group (Extendable)

• Theory Interest Group Chair (No extension)
• Time Domain Chair/Vice Chair (Extendable)
• Executive Committee Chair and Vice Chair

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

Since the last Euro_VO report to the IVOA Exec (attached to the TM59 agenda), the ASTERICS "VO" Workpackage 4, Data Access, Discovery and Interoperability (DADI) held two successful meetings:

• The Italian partner, INAF, organised the First ASTERICS ESFRI Forum and Training Event in Trieste, 3-4 December 2015. All the DADI partners were represented. One objective was to gather the requirements of the large infrastructures whih participate in the project with respect to the VO. The meeting web site is here: https://www.astron.nl/asterics/doku.php?id=open:wp4:wp4esfriforum1.
• The Spanish partner, INTA, organised the First ATERICS School fr Scientists in Madrid, 15-17 December 2015. The School gathered participants from 11 European countries, well beyond the ASTERICS DADI partners. As usual, the VO tutorials developed by Euro-VO over the years were updated and will be posted on the Euro-VO web site shortly after the School. The School web site is here: https://www.astron.nl/asterics/doku.php?id=open:wp4:school1. The schools organised at European level are used as templates for national events.

The ADASS and IVOA Interoperability meetings are also of course relevant to the DADI activities. DADI partners are also invited to participate in the Plenary meetins of the Research Data Alliance. The next RDA Plenary, the 7th, will be held in Tokyo 1-3 March 2016 https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-seventh-plenary-meeting.html. These meetings are clearly of interest for several of the IVOA activities. A RDA status report will be presented at the Cape Town Interop.

ESAVO

France VO

The renewal of the "Action Spécifique Observatoires Virtuels France" (ASOV), which is the national structure funded at the national level to support the French VO initiative, was discussed at the beginning of December 2015 at a meeting of the relevant CNRS/INSU Committee (Commission Spécialisée Astronomie-Astrophysique). ASOV will be renewed with a role expended to the support of the technical exchanges between people working in data dissemination services (as suggested after the last national strategic exercise for astronomy in 2014), and to more liaison with IT Research programmes. ASOV will continue to coordinate VO activities in astronomy and nearby disciplines in the country. The ASOV only provides travel money, for IVOA and other similar meetings, collaboration meetings between French teams, meetings focussed on specific topics (eg, VO for planetary sciences). ASOV was created in 2004 and it has been successful in creating and supporting on the long term a very active and visible French VO community.

GAVO

HVO

VObs.it

Japan-VO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

VO-India

Report from the TCG