IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM45)

Thursday July 12 @ 17.00 CET

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Logistics

Telecon

Agenda TM45

Roll Call and Agenda (MA)
Minutes of FM44 and FM44S
Review of Actions
Project Reports - Significant Events Only
Report of the TCG status (SG)
Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
VO-related events at the IAU GA : VOWG, Comm. 5 meetings in general, Data Intensive Astronomy Special Session
October 2012 Interop
Future Interops
CSP status (MA)
Date of next meeting
AOB
Summary of Actions (MA)

Reports from the Projects

Argentina - NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

Please refer to the report for FM44

CVO

Euro-VO

The next Euro-VO project, CoSADIE (Collaborative and Sustainable Astronomical Data Infrastructure for Europe), is currently in negotiation with the European Commission, for a start on 1 September 2012. This is a small, 2-year project (a Coordination Action in EC vocabulary), aiming at continuing coordination of European VO activities and at performing a feasibility study for a sustainable European Virtual Observatory, in close collaboration with Astronet. Astronet (http://www.astronet-eu.org) is a European Network gathering nearly all Astronomy funding agencies, which develops a strategy for European astronomy. CoSADIE partners is led by CDS/CNRS, and the other partners are INAF (Italy), INTA (Spain), the University of Edinburgh (UK) and the University of Heidelberg (Germany), each partner representing a national VO project. ESA-VO is associated to the project. CoSADIE will organise a VO School and a Data Centre Forum, as well as a series of Europe-wide Technology Forums for the VO developers. It will also include consolidation of activities aimed at outreach towards education, and an assessment of their possible sustainability.

The current Euro-VO project, EuroVO-ICE (International Coorperation Empowerment, http://www.eurovo-ice.eu), will end on 31 August 2012.