IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM68)

TM68 - Tue, 07 Mar 2017 - 15:00 UTC

Contents

• IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM68)
  • 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

Tuesday, March 07, 2017 @15:00 UTC

Agenda TM68

1. Roll Call and Agenda (JE)
2. Minutes of TM67
3. Review of Actions
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Overall TCG status
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
7. Update on Northern Spring 2017 - Shanghai
8. Discussion on new chair of the CSP
9. Transition in US representation
10. The 'Open Universe' initiative (http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/psa/schedule/2017/workshop_italy_openuniverse.html)
11. IVOA term expirations (see list below)
12. Future Interop
    • Northern Spring 2017 - Shanghai, China (May 14-19)
    • Northern Automn 2017 - Santiago, Chile (Oct 27-29)
13. Date of Next Exec Meeting
14. AOBReview of Action Items

• Positions with 12/2016 expiration with *no extension* available:
  • Education: Ch: Massimo Ramella
• Positions with 5/2017 expiration with *no extension* available:
  • Time Domain: Ch: John Swinbank
• Positions with 5/2017 expiration with *1 year extension* available:
  • Applications: Ch: Pierre Fernique, VCh: Tom Donaldson
  • Data Access: Ch: Francois Bonnarel, VCh: Marco Molinaro
  • Data Curation: Ch: Francoise Genova
  • Registry: Ch: Markus Demleitner

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

The “AstroCloud” project was concluded on Feb. 24, 2017, which was the main project of the China-VO during the last 4 years.

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

ESAVO

France VO

As usual, France-VO (the Action Spécifique Observatoires Virtuels or ASOV) opened a call for proposals to support travels to the IVOA Interoperability meetings, collaboration meetings between French teams and meetings on specific topics. The 2017 ASOV meeting will be held 15-16 March in Paris, with participants from Nice, Marseille, Montpellier, Toulouse, Grenoble, Besançon and Strasbourg, plus from Paris and Paris region labs. The meeting agenda (in French) is here: http://www.france-ov.org/twiki/bin/view/ASOVFrance/ReunionASOV2017. The meeting will be followed on 16 March by a "Semi-Hack-a-Thon" meeting allowing technical discussions among data providers, including but not only on the implementation of the VO framework. A "beginner training" on the implementation of the VO will be held on 17 March.

GAVO

HVO

VObs.it

Japan-VO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

The project statuses and notes from the USVOA business meeting during the 229th AAS are available. Participating projects included: ADS, CXC, HEASARC, IRSA , JHU, LSST, MAST, NED, NOAO, and NRAO .

Highlights from the meeting were

• New and updated services / applications
  • New service – NOAO DataLab (beta 1)
  • SciServer updates: Altair, SkyQuery, Compute, SciDrive hookup to CasJobs
  • Iris 3.0: updated plotting and fitting interface (promoted from beta to release on 06Mar17)
  • SIA v2 service implemented in NED
  • MAST: ObsTAP available for all MAST observations. Hubble Source Catalog complete.
  • IRSA: Cone, TAP, and SIA services implemented.
• Standards statuses:
  • VO-DML (VO Data Modeling Language) collaboration between CXC, JHU, STScI, and Univ. Strasbourg. Prototyping reference implementations to several formats and reworking syntax based on results.
  • HiPS (Hierarchical Progresssive Survey) work is planned at CXC and MAST.
  • CAOM (Common Archive Observation Model). While not a VO standard, US VOA participants are working to build interoperability with CAOM data.
• Project goals for 2017+:
  • ADS: VO compliancy updates and to-do’s — call for suggestions / enhancements in ADS for interoperability with other services.
  • HEASARC: VO compliancy updates
  • JHU: VO-DML work, SciServer updates
  • IRSA: Cone, TAP, and SIA services implemented. Currently working SIA v2, SSA, VOWorkspace, and CAOM services/models
  • LSST: VO areas of interest – SCS, SIAP, and TAP access will (almost certainly) be enabled within the interfaces and workspace
  • Chandra CXC: working NDCubeDM, DatasetDM, STC2. HiPS implementation work.
  • NED: working on TAP interface to NED Object Database, with version 1.0 expected to be released in late 2017.
  • MAST: Currently working CAOM, VO-DML, TAP, and NAVO-indexing survey, with plans for AuthN/AuthZ, DataLink implementation, and HiPS

Report from the TCG