IVOA Standing Committee on Science Priorities (CSP)

These pages are being updated by the current CSP.

Terms of Reference (2021-):

The IVOA recognizes that sustaining the scientific impact of the VO as an interoperable ecosystem to support science requires continuous engagement of the international astronomical community. The astronomy community comprises missions that are active or under development, operating observatories, astronomical archives, and teams of astronomers performing research and disseminating data products to the community. The primary goal of the CSP is to support the Executive Committee in its goal of sustaining the VO's impact, as follows:

• Advise the Executive Committee on strategies for engaging the astronomical community as a participant in the Virtual Observatory.
• Demonstrate to the community the benefits of participation in the IVOA, such as growth in the scientific return of data; the capability to discover and fuse multiple data sets; the application of the VO in planning new observations and observing strategies.
• Recommend scientific priorities and scientific requirements that will drive the development of new services, protocols and tools, which will be developed by the IVOA and coordinated by the TCG. These priorities should be driven by scientific use cases that are developed in cooperation with the scientific community.
• Support the TCG in the development of protocols to ensure they meet the actual scientific requirements
• Support VO members in developing tutorials, workshops and scientific training materials.

The Chair, Vice Chair and membership of the CSP will be determined by the IVOA Exec. The Chair of the IVOA TCG shall be a members ex-officio of the CSP. The Chair and Vice Chair of the CSP are members ex-officio of the TCG. The nominal term for Chair and Vice Chair of the CSP is expected to be 3 years. It is expected that the CSP will be consisted largely of members of the science community and active astronomy projects. The Chair of the Committee has the responsibility to coordinate the activities and to report to the Executive.

Committee Members:

• Mark Allen
• Enrique Solano
• Kai Lars Polsterer
• Gregory Dubois-Felsmann
• Raffaele D'Abrusco
• Mark Lacy
• Janet Evans
• Pepi Fabbiano
• Chenzhou Cui
• Francesca Civano (Chair)
• Vandana Desai (Vice-chair)
• Ada Nebot
• Marco Molinaro
• Rachana Bhatawdekar
• Rosie Bolton
• Judy Racusin
• Minh Huynh

Meeting notes

Date	Notes
September 12, 2017	Minutes
November 9, 2018	Minutes
December 17th, 2018	Minutes
30 September 2021	Minutes
04 February 2022	Minutes
19 September 2022	Minutes
07 November 2022	Minutes
17 January 2023	Minutes
21 February 2023	Minutes
05 April 2023	Minutes
02 October 2023	Minutes

Projects

Project	Status/notes
Time Series	Use cases focus sessions collected for May 2013 interop Coordination with Time Domain Interest Group	Use Case development page (To be reviewed 2016)
Multi-dimensional Data	Use cases collected for focus sessions for May 2013 interop	Use Case development page (next steps to be defined 2016)
	Follow-up Focus Session on Multi-dimensional Data were held in May 2014	InterOpMay2014MultiD
	Standards for Multi-d data access close to convergence (SIA v2.0, AccessData /SODA v1.0, DataLink v1.0, ObsCore v1.0)	Aim for 1st set of multi-d standards finalised early 2016
	Focus Session on “Interoperability of data from major astronomy projects” at the May 2016 IVOA Interoperability Meeting	IVOA_Project_Survey.pdf: Survey version 21 Oct 2016
Survey 2022		pdf results
High Energy Interest Group (HEIG)	At the May 2023 Interop in Bologna a group interested in high energy data met to discuss support of High Energy data in IVOA. In the short-term we will explore the following: 1) Document Event list formats for your project & Good time interval information 2) Whether an Obscore extension for High Energy data should be considered - What do you need to discover your data in the registry that isn’t in the current Obscore std? 3) Outline use cases to provide examples of interoperability issues as input to this group.	HEIG page

Past Projects:

Project	Coordinator
ObsTap	David Schade
SED Builder	Evanthia Hatziminaoglou and Paolo Padovani
Search for Classes/List of Objects	Mark Allen
Radioastronomy in the VO	Radio Astronomy

Previous Committee Members

• Pat Dowler
• Chao Liu
• Joseph Lazio
• Dave De Young
• Paolo Padovani
• Christophe Arviset
• Ajit Kembhavi
• Severin Gaudet
• Brian Glendenning
• Bruno Merin

Documents:

Terms of Reference (2015-2021) PDF

Terms of Reference (2010-2015) ( PDF)