CDS A&A EDP meeting

vendredi 6 mars 2020, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Paris

Salle de reunion Coupole (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg)

Location

Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Université, Strasbourg, FRANCE. See the following link for more details about getting here: Access Information

The meeting will be held in the main building with the big dome. The room is downstairs and is called the "Salle de Reunion Coupole".

 

Agenda for Friday 6 March

9h  Welcome and Introduction Session

[CDS - All CDS participants: MA, SL, PF, PO, CL, PV, GL, AO, AE, GMan, GMon, LC]

9h15 - Introduction to CDS - goals for the meeting  - MA

9h30 - Introduction to A&A and EDP - goals for the meeting  (D. Elbaz, T. Forveille)

9h45 - Introduction to the workflow of the CDS documentalists  - SL

10h Coffee break

10h30 Session on VizieR

[ CDS - PV, PO, GL, SL, MA, PF, GMon ]

- Work of Vizier documentalists for A&A  (PO, PV, SL) (~15 min)

Discussion Points:

- How are the references with tables selected by A&A editors for ingestion at CDS?

- Definition of the goal of 400 catalogues maximum per year

- Review the goals for Vizier associated data

- How to improve the instructions for authors and improve author formatting/description of the data

- (additional points: CTS Certification, DOIs)

 

12h30 Lunch - Université Restaurant - "Le 32"

 

13h30 Session on SIMBAD

[CDS - AO, GMan, CL, AE, SL, PF, MA, LC ]

13h30 -  Processing of A&A PDF and XML and new developments of XCDS  (AO, GM)

13h45 -  Discussion points

- What evolution is planned for A&A XML formats?

- Is it possible to be notified or be aware when we can automatically download a new published volume (full and final version of papers, including tables) ?

- What is the status of the use of \object{} ?

- How to improve the instructions for authors ?

15h Coffee

15h30 Session on physical hosting

[CDS - MA, SL, PF]

- the mirror copy of A&A is no longer functional - what do we do?

- for the whole A&A archive stored at CDS - what do we do?

16h30 Conclusions and next steps

17h Meeting close

 

09:00 → 10:30 Welcome and Introductions

10:30 → 11:00 coffee

11:00 → 12:30 VizieR

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 14:30 SIMBAD

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee

15:00 → 16:30 Physical hosting arrangements

16:30 → 17:00 Session: Conclusions and next steps