Category Archives: astroinformatics

Metadata and Data Management for the Keck Observatory Archive

Posted on June 23, 2014 by astrocompute

This is the title of a poster (spie14_koa_poster) by Hien Tran et al. (the et al. are the Keck Archive team), presented at the SPIE  Software and Cyberinfrastructure conference, part of “Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation” in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Data … Continue reading →

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National Data Service Animation

Posted on June 13, 2014 by astrocompute

Following on from yesterday’s post, Here is an animation that shows the goals of the National Data Service:

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Introduction to the National Data Service Consortium

Posted on June 12, 2014 by astrocompute

This week, I am attending the National Data Service (NDS) Consortium workshop, hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO on June 12 and 13 2014.  The NDS … Continue reading →

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Why Do We Still Have Journals?

Posted on June 6, 2014 by astrocompute

This the title of an editorial essay by Gerald Davis (Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan), in Administrative Science Quarterly. His essay was concerned with journals in social science, but I think many of the issues he … Continue reading →

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Peer Review as a Service: It’s not about the journal

Posted on May 12, 2014 by astrocompute

This is a repost of an article I found very interesting, and is reproduced here with the permission of the authors Chris Lintott  Stuart Lynn, Robert Simpson  & Arfon Smith. The original post is at theoj.org/?utm_content=bufferfdc41&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer This post sets out … Continue reading →

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Illustris: Creating A Virtual Universe

Posted on May 8, 2014 by astrocompute

Illustris a bold collaborative project that is producing a cosmological simulation of galaxy formation, using a state of the art numerical code and a comprehensive physical model. It is an outstanding example of how advances in computing power enable groundbreaking … Continue reading →

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What makes computational open source software libraries successful?

Posted on April 30, 2014 by astrocompute

This is the title of a paper by Wolfgang Bangerth and Timo Heister, which appeared in Computational Science and Discovery, 6 (2013)  (you may need an account with IOP to download it).  They are mathematicians with many years experience in … Continue reading →

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Creating and evaluating data management plans

Posted on April 22, 2014 by astrocompute

At the request of the Editor of the Astronomy Source Code Library (ASCL),  I am reproducing this post by Jonathan Petters, Data Management Consultant, Johns Hopkins Data Management Services. In a recent discussion on preservation and sharing of research data, … Continue reading →

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So exactly why do you blog, Bruce?

Posted on April 9, 2014 by astrocompute

And does it provide any benefits? And is it a sink of time? I have been asked these questions on a number of occasions, even though the topic is a bit off the beaten track, I thought the questions merited … Continue reading →

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The Theoretical Astrophysical Observatory: Cloud-Based Mock Galaxy Catalogues

Posted on April 4, 2014 by astrocompute

Bernyk et al. (2014) (MNRAS 2014 on press; astro-ph preprint here) have described a much needed on-line service that I am sure many astronomers will welcome, the Theoretical Astrophysical Observatory (TAO), described as an “on-line an online virtual laboratory that houses … Continue reading →

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