IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM125)
Date: Monday, February 24, 2025
Time: 19:00 UTC
Zoom Link: https://aao.zoom.us/j/84831315252?pwd=TjJZb0VBRVgxcDZ1cVVqTENZMWNMZz09
Contents
Agenda
- Roll call and agenda
- Review and approval of TM124 Minutes
- Review of ACTIONS_for_TM125.pdf
- Report on the IAU General Assembly
- Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
- Overall TCG Status [Standing Item]
- Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
- 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)
China-VO
CVO (Canada)
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)
- a workshop on data management and systems within INAF will be held 26-28 February
- with a pre-meeting on the 25th of VObs.it people to have some discussion time
- and a dedicated morning (two 90' sessions) to report on VO activities in INAF and give room for free discussion and to gather requirements.
- both radio and high energy astrophysics will be of the lot.
- the week after (4-5 March) MM will attend an ASI workshop and report status and works of the IVOA (will focus also on P3T and standards refurbishment activities).
Report from the TCG
- TCG met on Wednesday February 5th (full notes here)
- next vconf is planned for Tuesday March 11th
- besides the TCG vconf running meetings on ObsCore extension at HEIG and DM WG has happened (will report next time, wasn't able to attend them) and work is continuously progressing.
- there are also 3 documents on RFC, at least VOResource-1.2 should close soon its path
- REC-VOTable-1.5 and EN-UDCList-1.6 are stable on the doc repository
- some DM discussion (at TCG level) had to be skipped due to missing roles in attendance, will recover next time
- mostly related to models granularity, modularity and level/scope but also about REC/ENdorsement of models
- Ops/DAL/Apps will plan a discussion on on agent/client statistics for TAP and protocols, to see if it helps improving the VO ecosystem
- major version transitioning in Registry: MDem will think on how to start a discussion (potential task force ahead)
- (TCG chair to blame) GWS->DSP name change still to be finalised
- web static pages needs a decision, there are a few blocks: mobile responsiveness and newsletter
- looking forward for a "save the date" for the next interop
- TCG roles up for June:
- Apps (C, VC) - no ext.
- Registry (C, VC) - ext. possible
- DCP (C, VC) - ext. possible
- Solar System (C) - no ext.
- still missing TD chair
Report from the CSP