IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM94)

when: October 27, 2020

Time: 2pm (UTC)

Logistic

https://smithsonian.zoom.us/j/81494059495?pwd=b3JVSlR6YTZ1OTF0Y2NhR2JCdmxZQT09

Meeting ID: 814 9405 9495
Passcode: 642325

Agenda TM94

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of TM93
3. Review of Exec ACTIONS
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Overall CSP report
6. Overall TCG Status
7. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
8. Future Interop meetings - Northern Fall Virtual Meeting (November 17-19, 2020)
9. AOB
10. Date of next Exec meeting
11. Review of New Action Items

Reports from the Projects

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO (ASVO)

BRAVO

China-VO

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

The ESCAPE project is on-going and is coming up for its mid-term review at end of November.

ESCAPE is supporting a number of activities at the ADASS conference about the use of VO:

• Tutorial: "Multi-messenger Astronomy with ObsTAP and pyVO"
• BoF: Practical Provenance in Astronomy
• BoF: Radio/ (sub-)mm data archives round table
• Talk: Aladin Lite v3: behind the scenes of a major overhaul
• Posters:
  • Spreading the word – current status of VO tutorials and schools
  • Radio Astronomy visibility data discovery and access using IVOA standards
  • ESCAPE - addressing Open Science challenges.

ESA

France VO

GAVO

HVO

JVO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Vo-India

Vobs.it

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

Report from the TCG

• Current TCG Reviews:
  • Standards in RFC:
    • Measurements 1.0
    • Coordinates 1.0
    • ObsLocTap 1.0
  • 1 Errata (VoSpace)
  • 1 Note (UDF Catalogue)
• We have a TCG mtg scheduled for this Thu (10/29) - further Interop planning
• IVOA Interop
  • 96 participants as of today; 3 internal abstracts; 1 contact yesterday having trouble submitting; ~15 requests for session from WG/IG
  • Pointer to the program planning page: https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ProgramPrepVirtualNov
  • Plan to send reminder email about mtg/abstracts this week - Deadline 10/31
  • Also thinking to send a notice to the attendees from May (some may not have signed up for Interop email)
  • Exec encouraged to send a notice around to your Projects

Report from the Working Groups