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IVOA Member Organizations

Acronym	VO Project/Country	Principal Investigator
ArVO	Armenian Virtual Observatory	Areg Mickaelian
AstroGrid	Virtual Observatory United Kingdom	Andy Lawrence
Aus-VO	Australian Virtual Observatory	Rachel Webster
China-VO	Chinese Virtual Observatory	Chenzhou Cui
CVO	Canadian Virtual Observatory	David Schade
EURO-VO	European Virtual Observatory	Françoise Genova
GAVO	German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory	Joachim Wambsganss
HVO	Hungarian Virtual Observatory	István Csabai
JVO	Japanese Virtual Observatory	Masatoshi Ohishi
KVO	Korean Virtual Observatory	Sang Chul Kim
NVO	National Virtual Observatory, United States	Alex Szalay
OV-France	Observatoire Virtuel France	Françoise Genova
RVO	Russian Virtual Observatory	Oleg Malkov
SVO	Spanish Virtual Observatory	Enrique Solano
VObs.it	Italian Virtual Observatory	Fabio Pasian
VO-India	Virtual Observatory India	Ajit Kembhavi

See also the members page on ivoa.net: IVOA Members.

IVOA Interoperability

The main areas in which the IVOA needs to define standards to ensure the interoperability of the different VirtualObservatory projects currently underway were defined at the meeting in Seattle on 9-10 Jan 2003 (VOEvent has been added as of 22 Nov 2004). Those areas were:

Area	Page	Mailing list	Chair	Vice Chair
Applications	IvoaApplications	apps@ivoa.net	TomMcGlynn	MarkTaylor
Data Access Layer	IvoaDAL	dal@ivoa.net	KeithNoddle	JesusSalgado
Data Model	IvoaDataModel	dm@ivoa.net	MireilleLouys	AnitaRichards
Grid & Web Services	IvoaGridAndWebServices	grid@ivoa.net	MatthewGraham	PaulHarrison
Registry	IvoaResReg	registry@ivoa.net	RayPlante	AurelienStebe
Semantics	IvoaSemantics	semantics@ivoa.net	SebastienDerriere	NormanGray
Event	IvoaVOEvent	voevent@ivoa.net	RobSeaman	AlasdairAllan
Query Language	IvoaVOQL	voql@ivoa.net	PedroOsuna	YujiSHIRASAKI
VOTable	IvoaVOTable	votable@ivoa.net	FrancoisOchsenbein



Interest Groups:


Astronomical Grid	AstroRG	astrorg@ivoa.net	MasatoshiOhishi
Data Curation&Preservation	IvoaCP	datacp@ivoa.net	BobHanisch
Theory	IvoaTheory	theory@ivoa.net	HerveWozniak	ClaudioGheller




Technical Coordination Group	IvoaTCG	tcg@ivoa.net	ChristopheArviset	SeverinGaudet
Standing Committee on Standards & Processes	IvoaStdsDocsProc	stdproc@ivoa.net	FrancoiseGenova

Note: the mailing list archives can be viewed and the lists subscribed to at http://ivoa.net/forum/. Lists can be searched here.

See the Policy on IVOA Working Group/Interest Group Chairs and Vice Chairs for an explanation of the role of Chairs and Vice-chairs.

WG/IG Groups Contacts

In order to contact the Chairs of WGs and IGs, the following exploders can be used:

wgchairs@ivoa.net (for WGs Chairs)
igchairs@ivoa.net (for IGs Chairs)

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