IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM74)

TM74 - Tue, 19 Dec 2017 - 15:00 UTC

Contents

• IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM74)
  • 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, Dec 19, 2017 @15:00 UTC

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Agenda TM74

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of FM73
3. Review of Exec Actions
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
6. Overall TCG status
7. Overal CSP status
8. IVOA Newsletter
9. Term Expirations in Norther Spring 2018 Meeting (see list below)
10. Update on Northern Spring 2018 - Victoria, Canada
11. Open Universe Meeting followup (NGO follow-up)
12. Future Interops
    • Northern Spring 2017 - Victoria, Canada (May28-Jun01)
    • Northern Autumn 2018 - Washington DC (Nov 10-18 - tentative)
13. AOB
14. Date of Next Exec Meeting
15. Review of Action Items

("no extension" means the person has already been extended and term will end; "1 year extension" means a 1 year extension is available)

• WG: Applications: Pierre Fernique - Ch (no extension), Tom Donaldson (no extension) - V Ch
• WG: Data Access: Francois Bonnarel - Ch (no extension), Marco Molinaro (no extension) - V Ch
• WG: Registry: Markus Demleitner - Ch (no extension), Theresa Dower (1 year extension) - V Ch
• WG: Data Model: Mark Cresitello-Dittmar - Ch (1 year extension) , Laurent Michel (1 year extension) - V Ch
• WG: Grid & Web Services: Brian Major - Ch (1 year extension), Guiliano Taffoni (1 year extension) - V Ch
• WG: Semantics: Mireille Louys - Ch (1 year extension), Alberto Accomazzi (1 year extension) - V Ch
• IG: Data Curation & Preservation: Francoise Genova (no extension) - Ch
• IG: Operations: Tom McGlynn - Ch (1 year extension), Mark Taylor (1 year extension) - V Ch
• TCG: Matthew Graham - Ch, Patrick Dowler2 - V Ch
• Exec: Pepi Fabbiano - Ch, Mark Allen - V Ch

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

• China-VO 2017, the 16th annual workshop from the Chinese Virtual Observatory, was held successfully at Dali, a south-west city in China from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1, 2017. More than 150 participants from 57 institutes/universities/companies registered to the workshop.
• “Astronomy Teaching in Primary School”, a teacher book for WWT classes was published officially in November. It may be the first officially published WWT curriculum in the world.

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

ESAVO

France VO

GAVO

HVO

Japan-VO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Vo-India

Vobs.it

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

At the 231st AAS Meeting, there will be a couple of VO-related sessions and exhibits, including presentations from international VO partners, open to all astronomers. On Jan. 7 at 10:00 am, EST, NASA Astronomical Virtual Observatories will be leading a workshop on accessing the NASA astrophysical archives via Python tools. On Monday, Jan. 8, the USVOA will be holding an open meeting from 2:00-3:30pm, during which the latest US-based VO efforts will be presented by partner institutes, new demos shown, and current/future VO tasks discussed. IVOA affiliated institutions will have booths in the exhibition hall throughout the week, demonstrating tools and services.

Report from the TCG