1. May 19, 2006IVOA InterOp WS 2006 May, Victoria, Canada 1 Plenary (DAY2) Masatoshi Ohishi / NAOJ & Sokendai 大石雅寿 / 国立天文台 & 総合研究大学院大学 masatoshi.ohishi@nao.ac.jp

2. May 19, 2006IVOA InterOp WS 2006 May, Victoria, Canada 2 UCD  Semantics WG Wider scope : semantics ontologies (long term) Charter is found at http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaUCD/Char ter-Semantics.pdf with preamble: The semantics working group will explore technology in the area of semantics with the aim of producing new standards that aid the interoperability of VO system http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaUCD/Char ter-Semantics.pdf Approved in exec meeting on 17th

3. May 19, 2006IVOA InterOp WS 2006 May, Victoria, Canada 3 UCD List Maintenance v1.1 Voting process has been ongoing until May 26 th. If approved, announcement will be made to interop@ivoa.net.

4. May 19, 2006IVOA InterOp WS 2006 May, Victoria, Canada 4 Data Center take up A Task Force to survey implementation status of some IVOA stds (Registry, SIAP, ADQL, etc.) Chair – David Schade (CADC) Report will be made at the September InterOp WS in Moscow

5. May 19, 2006IVOA InterOp WS 2006 May, Victoria, Canada 5 Work Progress in this week Each WG/IG chair will present its progress and technical milestone. IVOA technical lead will consolidate the technical milestones, and publish to the wiki page.

6. May 19, 2006IVOA InterOp WS 2006 May, Victoria, Canada 6 Guideline for WG/IG chairs (to be developed by the exec) For example …. Circulate draft agenda for sessions ~ 1 month before Promote members to upload materials for discussion ~ 1 week before Manage discussion in sessions –To make consensus –as neutral as possible –propose solution to resolve different views –set up subgroups / correspondence groups, if needed –keep time –…

7. May 19, 2006IVOA InterOp WS 2006 May, Victoria, Canada 7 IVOA Calendar 2006 May 15-19 InterOp WS, Victoria (CADC) 2006 Aug 17-18 & 21-22 IAU GA Special Sessions, VO and Data Management (Prague, Czech) Science result papers required !!, Coordinated Demos, Exec 2006 Sep 06 -14 NVO Summer School (Aspen, CO) 2006 Sep 18 -22 InterOp + Small Project Meeting (Moscow) 2006 Oct 15 -18 ADASS XVI, Tucson (USA) 2007 Jan AAS Demo 2007 May 21-25 ? InterOp WS, Kunming (China) 2007 First Semester EURO-VO WS ? 2007 Aug 20-25 VO session in JENAM, Yerevan (Armenia) 2007 Autumn ADASS XVII, London (UK) + InterOp WS ? 2007 End/ 2008 B EURO-VO DCA Theory WS 2008 Spring InterOp WS (???)

8. May 19, 2006IVOA InterOp WS 2006 May, Victoria, Canada 8 Poll and … How many of you plan to participate the Moscow InterOp meeting ? There will be an early pre−registration procedure to allow time for obtaining visas.

9. May 19, 2006IVOA InterOp WS 2006 May, Victoria, Canada 9 1.0 1.1 2.0 implementation base (= cost of schema change) May 2006 “end of the beginning” time

10. May 19, 2006IVOA InterOp WS 2006 May, Victoria, Canada 10 Our babies are coming … Pregnancy The pains of childbirth we are here !! BIRTH Child care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week