Officers and Organizing Committee (2009-2012)

Masatoshi Ohishi	Japan	President
Bob Hanisch	USA	Vice President
Ray Norris	Australia	Past-President
Heinz Andernach Marsha Bishop Elizabeth Griffin Ajit Kembhavi Tara Murphy Fabio Pasian	Mexico USA Canada            India Australia Italy

Working Groups and Task Force

• Working Group Astronomical Data, Chair: Ray Norris
• Working Group Designations, Chair: Marion Schmitz
  • IAU Recommendations for Nomenclature
  • Proposal for Registering a new Acronym
  • Star names: history
• Working Group Libraries, co-Chairs: Bob Hanisch & Marsha Bishop
• Working Group FITS, Chair: William Pence, vice-chair: Lucio Chiappetti
• Working Group Virtual Observatories, Chair: Bob Hanisch
• Task Force Preservation and Digitization of Photographic Plates, Chair: Elizabeth Griffin

Activities of Commission 5

• Virtual Observatory
• Commission 5 activities at IAU 27th General Assembly, Rio de Janeiro, August 2009
  • (March 2008) ICSU Strategic Committee for Information and Data: Draft report
• Commission 5 activities at IAU 26th General Assembly, Prague, August 2006
  • Report of Commission 5 Business Meetings at IAU 26th General Assembly, Prague, August 2006
• Commission 5 activities at IAU 25th General Assembly, Sydney, July 2003
• IAU Report to CODATA, October 2006

Archive Documents

• IAU GA 2009, Rio
  • Schedule of Commission 5 Meetings

 

• 2006-2009 Reports to IAU
  • IAU Commission 5
  • Working Group on Astronomical Data
  • Working Group Designations
  • Working Group Libraries
  • Working Group FITS
  • Working Group Virtual Observatories
  • Task Force Preservation and Digitization of Photographic Plates

 

• Commission 5 web pages 2006-2009
• Commission 5 web pages 2003-2006
• Directory of some major astronomical data centres

 

Activities Related to Com 5

• ICSU home page
• ICSU Data and Information
• ICSU Background and terms of reference for SCID
• ICSU Ad Hoc Strategic Coordination Committee on Information and Data (SCCID)
• World Data Systems (WDS) home page
• CODATA home page
  
  
  • FAGS home page
  • WDC home page

 

 

Contact details for all  individuals mentioned above can be found on http://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/commissions/5/members/

Last update: April 27, 2010 11:32:01, by Masatoshi Ohishi