Officers and Organizing Committee (2006-2009)

Ray Norris	Australia	President
Masatoshi Ohishi	Japan	Vice-President
Françoise Genova	France	Past-President
Uta Grothkopf	Germany	WG Libraries (2006-2008)
Bob Hanisch	USA	WG VO WG Libraries (2008-2009)
Oleg Malkov	Russia
William Pence	USA	WG FITS
Marion Schmitz	USA	WG Nomenclature
Xu Zhou	China

Officers and Organizing Committee-elect (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

IAU GA 2009, Rio

• Schedule of Commission 5 Meetings

 

2006-9 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

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, Chairs: (2006-2008): Uta Grothkopf & Fionn Murtagh  (2008-2009) Bob Hanisch & Marsha Bishop
• Working Group FITS, Chair: William Pence, vice-chair: François Ochsenbein
• Working Group Virtual Observatories, Chair: Bob Hanisch
• Task Force Preservation and Digitization of Photographic Plates, Chair: Elizabeth Griffin

Activities of Commission 5

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

Archive Documents

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

 

Restructuring of FAGS and WDC

• FAGS home page
• WDC home page
• ICSU Background and terms of reference for SCID

 

 

Contact details for all  individuals mentioned above can be found on http://www.iau.org/Directory.83.0.html

Last update: 7 April 2009, by Ray Norris