<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear TDIG members,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was happy to meet you in Shanghai and I am pleased to take part of the TDIG. </div><div class="">As John mentioned, I have accepted to chair the group, and together with Dave Morris as vice-chair I hope we can well represent the group and that productive discussions take place through this mailing list. </div><div class="">John, thank you for your summary on Shanghai’s TDIG sessions on VOEvents and Time Series, and many thanks for your work as chair during the last years!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like to add to the wiki some interesting meetings coming up in the next months: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Transient Sky in 2020, 20-22 June 2017, Paris, France <a href="https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/14321/timetable/#20170622.detailed" class="">https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/14321/timetable/#20170622.detailed</a> This is a three day workshop, unfortunately contributions will only be in French… There will probably be discussions on the VO vision on time domain, concerning VOEvents but also visualisation of time series (photometry, images, spectra,… ) </li><li class="">Southern Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy IAU Symposium 339, 13-17 November 2017, Stellenbosch, South Africa: <a href="http://iaus339.ast.uct.ac.za/" class="">http://iaus339.ast.uct.ac.za</a> </li><li class="">ASTERICS workshop on Radio - γ: Transient Alert Mechanisms, September 26-28, Amsterdam, Netherlands <a href="https://www.asterics2020.eu/radio-gamma-workshop" class="">https://www.asterics2020.eu/radio-gamma-workshop</a> </li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">I will be attending the first two meetings. Please let us know if you plan on attending any of these meetings, or if you would like to add any other Time Domain VO related meeting to the list above, by replying to this email. I will add those to the wiki page. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, I would like to remind that a joint DAL/DM/TDIG task force team is being formed to identify solutions for Time Series use cases. Let us know if you would like to join the team. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Ada</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 May 2017, at 18:09, John Swinbank <<a href="mailto:swinbank@princeton.edu" class="">swinbank@princeton.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear TDIG,<br class=""><br class="">It was good to catch up with many of you in Shanghai last week. I think<br class="">the meeting was very productive — thanks to everybody who took part.<br class=""><br class="">The TDIG sessions at the meeting were split into two distinct areas:<br class="">transient alerts (VOEvent) and time series data.<br class=""><br class="">At the alert session:<br class=""><br class="">- Pierre Le Sidaner provided some feedback about his experiences of<br class=""> deploying VOEvent in practice;<br class="">- Maria Patterson talked about the new alert system being constructed<br class=""> for ZTF and LSST;<br class="">- We had a useful discussion about potential future development<br class=""> directions for VOEvent. There are some notes from this on the wiki at<br class=""> <a href="http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2017-TD-001" class="">http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2017-TD-001</a>.<br class=""><br class="">At the (two) time series data sessions:<br class=""><br class="">- There were several presentations, running the gamut from the current<br class=""> status of data model development (Mark Creistello-Ditmar, Jiří<br class=""> Nádvorník) to news and status updates from data providers (e.g. Juan<br class=""> Gonzalez deom Gaia)<br class="">- There was time for just a short discussion session after the<br class=""> presentations.<br class="">- Following this session, the plan is to create a joint DAL/DM/TDIG<br class=""> working group to identify solutions for time series use cases. Please<br class=""> make yourself known on this mailing list if you'd like to participate.<br class=""><br class="">Dave Morris gave a summary of our activities at the closing plenary: his<br class="">slides are available here:<br class=""><a href="http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpMay2017PlenaryWG/20170519-tdig-002.pdf" class="">http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpMay2017PlenaryWG/20170519-tdig-002.pdf</a>.<br class=""><br class="">Finally, this InterOp marked the end of my period as chair of TDIG. I'm<br class="">delighted to report that Ada Nebot has agreed to take over this position,<br class="">with Dave Morris continuing as vice chair. I'm sure you'll join me in<br class="">wishing them both great success in these roles over the years to come!<br class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class=""><br class="">John<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>