Location

Our fall team meeting will be held at the Aspen Wye River Conference Center on Maryland's Eastern Shore. BWI is the most convenient airport. There are directions on the Wye River website, or go to maps.google.com and enter an origin of BWI and destination of 201 Wye Woods Way, Queenstown, MD 21658.

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Summary

Notes on agreements and actions. Please see the presentations attached below for details.

Registry: Need to include test query in the registry, i.e., and query provided by the service provider that is known to work and return good results. This can be added to the service metadata schema and does not affect RM V1.1. RM V1.1 will soon have an open comment period for promotion to Recommendation.

Data Models: CfA developing Java software library for Data Model support. Team would like to see specifications, capabilities, etc. STC Lite has been withdrawn. New approach is to make almost all STC elements optional. Defaults would be “unknown”. Arnold and Roy agreed to write roadmap for reaching closure on STC.

Query Language: Maria is cleaning up the ADQL document. Discussed concerns about supporting multiple cross-match algorithms.

Data Access Layer: Need to finish SSAP specification. Doug and Jonathan have several near-term deliverables (final spectrum DM, final SSAP interface definition). Agreed to put the cone search protocol through the official IVOA standards process. Ray will format the document.

Logging: Topic needs further technical discussion. Agenda item for TechWG telecons. Resolve how to handle RunIDs.

NVO and PDS: Ludmilla Kolokolova (PDS/UMd) gave an overview of the PDS system. Most PDS data access is based on object or dataset name, not sky position. Ludmilla agreed to consult with PDS collaborators and come up with 2 or 3 science use cases where NVO and PDS datasets could be used together.

VOForum: Team members tried out us-vo.org/forum/ and agreed that it was useful. Action on Sarah, Roy, Mike F., and Bob to finalize configuration and seed with messages from the feedback@us-vo.org e-mail archive.

NVO Summer School. NVOSS II generally seen as successful. Tom agreed (tentatively) to chair NVOSS III. NSF has given verbal support for NVOSS III. Agreed to stay with same time frame and location, though we noted that the IVOA Interop will be in Moscow the next week.

NVO Advisory Committee. Will meet on 16-17 Feb 2006 at JHU. WBS leaders please plan to be on hand.

Applications and January AAS Meeting: Agreed on theme for AAS exhibit, “critical mass.” That is, NVO provides access to huge amounts of data. Develop poster showing numbers (# collections, # TB, # sites) and map of geographic distribution. Agreed to feature four science applications (though others will be available if people are interested).

• DataScope with VOEvent feed (Tom)
• Spectrum Browser with new additions (Tamas)
• WCSFixer (Mike F., Jeremy)
• Quick Inventory (John)

The latter are new applications. We did not choose which implementation of WCSFixer to highlight. Requirement is that the application run completely via a web browser and that the user gets good graphical feedback. The Quick Inventory is based on John Good’s density maps, with some additions to the user interface.

The developer’s should announce the availability of their applications to the team ASAP. The following people agreed (or were volunteered) to do some serious testing as soon as the applications are ready:

• DataScope/VOEvent: Rob, Simon, Ramon
• Spectrum Browser: Matthew, Frank, Simon
• WCSFixer: Roy, Stephen L., Ed, Arnold
• Inventory: Bob, Tom, Ray

Other testers are welcome. Agreed that these applications should be frozen by 15 Dec.

Want to add quick query box to NVO home page. User can enter object name or position and send query to DataScope or the Inventory service directly. Might also add direct query to registry.

Montage should also be released in time to show at the AAS meeting. IPAC would like to invite NVO team members to do some final testing as well.

Also, highlight NVOSS-II award winners and promote NVOSS-III.

Next Team Meeting: 3-4 April 2006 at Caltech.

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Agenda

Wed 16 Nov

Arrivals	afternoon and evening
Drinks	7:30pm
Dinner	8:15pm

Thu 17 Nov

7:30am	Breakfast
8:30am	Goals for this meeting, review of agenda, news, logistical matters
	Technical status and review of progress (using IVOA Interop WGs to organize topics)
	What are NVO priorities and responsibilities in each of these areas?
	o Registry (Ray) PPT, PDF
	o Data Models (and STC) (Jonathan, Arnold)
	o Query Language (Maria) PPT, PDF
	o UCDs/Semantics
	o Grid and Web Services (VOStore, Security) (Matthew) PPT
	o Data Access Layer (SSAP, SIAP, SkyNode) (Doug) PPT, PDF
	o VOTable
	o VOEvent (Roy)
12:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	VO-enabled research results
2:00pm	NVO Applications
	o WCSFixer (Simon, Jeremy, Mike)
	o Forms-Based GUI for OpenSkyQuery (Ani, Bob)
	o VOEvent feed to DataScope (Tom, Roy)
	o Footprint services (John, Alex, Gretchen, Ryan)
	o Montage (Bruce) Montage.ppt
	o AAS exhibit planning
	Statistics in the NVO
	o VOStat status (Ashish, Matthew?)
	o Next steps?
5:30pm	Adjourn
7:00pm	Drinks
7:45pm	Dinner

Fri 18 Nov

7:30am	Breakfast
8:30am	Report on the NVO Summer School (Tom)
9:00am	Report on Research Initiatives program (Dave)
9:30am	Community outreach, education, web sites (Carol)
10:00am	Logging (Ani)
10:30am	NVO/TeraGrid integration; Secure, asynchronous service architecture (Roy)
11:00am	NVO and other VO initiatives (Bob)
	o Interfaces with Planetary Data System (Ludmilla) PPT (33 MB) PDF (31 MB)
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Recap
	o Priorities
	o Actions
	Future events
2:00pm	Adjourn

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Participants Steve Kent (FNAL), Alberto Conti (STScI), Bernie Shiao (STScI), Doug Tody (NRAO), Matthew Graham (Caltech), Maria Nieto-Santisteban (JHU), Tom McGlynn (HEASARC), Stephen Levine (USNO), Kirk Borne (GMU), Bruce Berriman (IPAC), Patrick Dowler (CVO), Dave De Young (NOAO), Mike Fitzpatrick (NOAO), Ashish Mahabal (Caltech), Alex Szalay (JHU), Michael Kurtz (CfA), Arnold Rots (CfA), Tom Donaldson (STScI), Jeremy Brewer (Pitt), Randy Thompson (STScI), Ivo Busko (STScI), Ryan Scranton (Pitt), Pepi Fabbiano (CfA), Simon Krughoff (Pitt), Joe Mazzarella (NED), Roy Williams (Caltech), Reagan Moore (SDSC), Gretchen Greene (STScI), Bob Hanisch (STScI), Ray Plante (NCSA), Jordan Raddick (JHU), Ani Thakar (JHU), Ed Shaya (UMd), Carol Christian (STScI), Ludmilla Kolokolova (PDS/UMd)

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The NVO Team at work (c/o R. Thompson)

View of the river (c/o R. Thompson):

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