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
