Consortia activities

Stephane Erard — 2017-10-09T16:30:21Z

PADC contributes to the activities of the consortia defining the interoperability standards in astronomy: IVOA, IPDA, IHDEA, IAU, and VAMDC, as well as RDA and, at national level, ASOV

IVOA

International Virtual Observatory Alliance

Contributions:
B. Cecconi (current chair of Semantics WG, former chair & co-chair of Solar System Interest Group)
S. Erard (current chair of Solar System Interest Group)
B Khelifi (current chair of High Energy Interest Group)
R. Savale (chair of Registry WG)
M. Servillat (co-chair of Data Model WG)

F. Le Petit (former French representative at exec; former chair of Theory Interest Group)
P. Le Sidaner (former chair of Apps WG, former chair & co-chair of Registry WG)
C. M. Zwölf (former co-chair of Semantics WG)

PADC personnel attend the IVOA Interop meetings twice a year to discuss the evolution of standards and science cases in the Virtual Observatory. Such communications are informal and are not included in our publication list.

IPDA

International Planetary Data Alliance

Contributions:
B. Cecconi (Current co-chair of IPDA, representative of CNES in steering committee)
S. Erard (representative of Europlanet Society in steering committee)
P. Le Sidaner (Technical Expert Group member, IVOA contact)
C. Chauvin (Technical Expert Group member)

IPDA meets once a year and has regular telecons, to discuss the evolution of planetary data access modes between space agencies.

IHDEA

International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance

Contributions:
B. Cecconi (ObsParis / PADC representative)

The Observatory of Paris is a founding member of IHDEA.
IHDEA encourages the use of common standards and services in order to enable sharing of data and to enhance science in this field.

RDA

Research Data Alliance

Contributions:
C. M. Zwölf (co-chair of GEDE - Group of European Data Experts; co-chair of
Federated Identity Management Interest Group)

EOSC Association

European Open Science Cloud

Contributions:
B. Cecconi (representative of the Observatory of Paris)

The Observatory of Paris is a full member of EOSC Association.

ESA

European Space Agency's Planetary Science Archive user group

Contributions:
B. Cecconi (former PSA user group member, 2013-2016)
S. Erard (former PSA user group member, 2002-2005)

European Space Agency's Heliophysics Archive User Group

Contributions:
B. Cecconi (current member of the HAUG)

IAU

IAU Division B: Facilities, Technologies and Data Science

Contributions:
M.-L. Dubernet (Vice-President of commission B5)

VAMDC

VAMDC consortium

Contributions:
M.-L. Dubernet (former chair Board of Directors, < 2022)
C. M. Zwölf (former Executive director, < 2022)
N. Moreau (co-chair of Science & Technical board)

ASOV

Action Spécifique Observatoire Virtuel

Contributions:
F. Le Petit (former chair of Science Council ASOV)