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*IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM126)*

<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, April 23, 2025

<b>Time: </b>13:00 UTC

*Zoom Link:* [[https://aao.zoom.us/j/84831315252?pwd=TjJZb0VBRVgxcDZ1cVVqTENZMWNMZz09]]
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*Contents*

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---++ Agenda
   1 Roll call and agenda
   1 Review and approval of TM125 Minutes
   1 Review of [[%ATTACHURL%/ACTIONS_for_TM126.pdf][ACTIONS_for_TM126.pdf]] [[%PUBURL%/IVOA/IvoaExecMeetingTM123/ACTIONS_for_TM123.pdf][<br />]]
   1 Future Interop meetings
      * Northern Spring 2025 - Maryland, USA
      * Northern Fall 2025 - Görlitz (ADASS dates: 9-13 November 2025, Interop held after ADASS)
   1 Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
   1 Overall TCG Status [Standing Item]
   1 Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
      * VOResource-1.2 (final approval after last quick changes: final PR available [[https://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOResource/20250416/REC-VOResource-1.2.pdf][here]]
   1 CSP Report
   1 IVOA Website [New Standing Item]
      * Draft new website available: <a href="https://webtest.ivoa.info" target="_blank">https://webtest.ivoa.info</a>/
      * Git Hub repository: [[https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web]]
         * Bug reporting and change requests: [[https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web/issues]]
   1 Report on the IAU General Assembly/Working Group
   1 Date of next Exec meeting
   1 AOB
      * IVOA communication channels
      * IVOA web assets organization and efforts
      * Interest Groups scope
   1 Review of new actions
---++ Reports from the Projects
---+++ NOVA (Argentina)
---+++ ArVO (Armenia)
---+++ AstroGrid (United Kingdom)
---+++ ASVO (Australia)

---+++ BRAVO (Brazil)
---+++ China-VO
   * <font face="Calibri">T</font><font face="Calibri">he National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) </font><font face="Calibri">and </font><font face="Calibri">Zhejiang Lab successfully hosted the </font><font face="Calibri">“</font><font face="Calibri">AI-Empowered Astronomy for Open Science</font><font face="Calibri">”</font> <font face="Calibri">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.</font> <font face="Calibri">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 </font>BOF <font face="Ebrima">on </font>Scientific Education <font face="Ebrima">was initiated and chaired by Chenzhou Cui. Topics related to VO training and IVOA liaison group are also discussed at the event.</font>
---+++ 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)
---+++ UkrVO (Ukraine)
---+++ 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)
      * under the same project an activity started to identify metadata for simulation runs discovery: might have SimDM /SimDAL impact
   * 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
---+++ Report from the TCG

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
   * StandardsRegExt -1.1
Other documents activity:
   * 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

Other activities:
   * web assets (web, docs, ...): looking forward to switching to the new website before College Park
   * GWS-&gt;DSP renaming ongoing, a few pages and links still need update

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

---+++ Report from the CSP
   * [[%ATTACHURL%/ACTIONS_for_TM126.pdf][ACTIONS_for_TM126.pdf]]: ACTIONS_for_TM126.pdf
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Topic attachments
I	Attachment	History	Action	Size	Date	Who	Comment
pdf	ACTIONS_for_TM126.pdf	r1	manage	100.3 K	2025-04-18 - 16:54	MarcyHarbut
Topic revision: r5 - 2025-04-18 - MarcyHarbut
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