ADS Users Group

Meeting Agenda

17-18 January 2017

Venue

Wolbach Library Collaborative Space

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

60 Garden St

Cambridge, MA 02138

https://library.cfa.harvard.edu/hoursdirectionsmap 

Tuesday, January 17 - CfA Library Collaborative Space

12 noon: Lunch (provided), meet and greet

1:00pm: Agenda & Logistics (Alberto Accomazzi)

1:10pm: Welcome to the ADS Users Group (Kathy Flanagan)

• Charter
• Conflicts of interest
• Terms of membership / rotations

1:30pm: ADS Overview (Alberto Accomazzi & Michael Kurtz)

• ADS staff introductions
• ADS mission
• Senior Review Process and Past Recommendations
• Data Holdings and Curation strategy
• ADS Usage and Access
• System requirements, Development and Evolution
• Highlights of new system functionality (Live Demo)
• Current ADS Development Program
• Questions

3:00pm: Break

3:20pm: A look behind the curtain

• Data Ingest and curation (Carolyn Grant & Donna Thompson)
• Metadata Enrichment and Indexing (Edwin Henneken & Steve McDonald)
• New Architecture and User Interface (Roman Chyla)

4:30pm: Challenges, threats and opportunities (Alberto Accomazzi)

5:00pm: Discussion and committee assignments

5:45pm: Group dinner at Nubar Restaurant (https://goo.gl/maps/SNHZyPeMtXk)

Wednesday, January 18 - CfA Library Collaborative Space

8:40am: Breakfast

9:00am: Follow-up Q&A

9:30am: Executive Session (B-106)

10:00am: Report writing and individual assignments (B-106)

10:30am: Break (CfA Library Collaborative Space)

11:00am: Report writing and individual assignments (B-106)

12:00pm: Debrief with PI

12:20pm: Bagged Lunch (CfA Collaborative Space)

1pm: Adjourn