Venue:

Pratt Conference Room
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Directions

Wednesday, Nov 20, 2019

12:00pm: Lunch and executive session

1:00pm: Welcome by CfA Deputy Director Roger Brissenden

1:10pm: Introductions and Logistics

1:20pm: ADS Overview

• Staffing, Program, Management
• Support for Planetary

2:00pm: Platform transition

• System Enhancements Over Last Year
• Transition Milestones and User Support
• Work in Progress

3:00pm: Coffee Break and welcome by HEAD Associate Director Bill Forman

3:30pm: ADS Platform Overview And Progress

• Lifecycle of a Service
• Search Scoring and Performance
• Infrastructure
• Ingest System

5:00pm: Q&A

5:30pm: Adjourn

6:30pm: Group Dinner at Sheraton Commander

Thursday, Nov 21, 2019

8:30am: Coffee and snacks

9:00am: Content selection and curation

• Affiliation Normalization and Mapping, Journals Database
• Content Boundaries
• User Support and Feedback

10:10am: Work Ahead

• What’s Left in Transition

10:30am: Coffee break

11:00am: Planning for the Future

• Future Services
• Staffing

12:15pm: Q&A

12:30pm: Lunch served in Wolbach Library Collaborative Space

• Executive Session - Room C25

3:00pm: Adjourn