Resources and Roadmap

Charter

SMWLV's charter can be viewed here.

Code of Conduct

The Code of Conduct was ratified in March 2026 and can be viewed here. The contact information for the ethics committee can be found on the About page.

Publication Policy

The Publication Policy was ratified in March 2026 and can be viewed here.

Legacy Roadmap

The legacy roadmap document here was converted into LaTeX by extracting the test and the images used in the PDF versions of the orignal (circa 2013) contributions from each of the science working groups.

The LaTeX source is available on the SMWLV github repository. Here is the updated PDF.

LSST Science Book

Chapter 6: Stellar Populations in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies
Chapter 7: Milky Way & Local Volume Structure
Chapter 8: The Transient & Variable Universe

Cadence Documents

2018 cadence whitepapers
2021 cadence notes

SMWLV public documents page

SMWLV documentation is generally stored in the public google drive folder SMWLV_public.

Telecon agendas/livenotes

Agendas/livenotes docs for the monthly SMWLV collaboration-wide telecons appear in the following folder: SMWLV_telecons

Presentations & talk resources

Resources for talks (e.g. the SMWLV logo) and previous presentations (as google slides, powerpoint or pdf) can be found here. If you present on behalf of SMWLV, we encourage you to share your talk here so others in the collaboration can benefit: SMWLV_talkResources

Science working groups supporting documents

To be used by SMWLV science working groups as they see fit: SMWLV_scienceWorkingGroups

Task forces supporting documents

To be used by SMWLV task forces as they see fit: SMWLV_taskForces