Category Archives: metadata management

A New Data Archive for Gemini – Fast, Cheap and in the Cloud

Posted on November 20, 2015 by astrocompute

I must congratulate my colleague Paul Hirst at Gemini – he is to my knowledge the first astronomer to use “cheap” and “cloud” in the same title. His talk on building a new archive for the Gemini telescopes was presented … Continue reading →

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Petascale Data Management in Solar Physics: Approach of the DKIST Data Center

Posted on November 10, 2015 by astrocompute

While attending the ADASS XXV meeting in Sydney, I heard this excellent presentation by Steve Berukoff 0n data management at the National Solar Obervatory’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, now under construction on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.  The telescope is due for … Continue reading →

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Is HDF5 a good format to replace UVFITS?

Posted on November 12, 2014 by astrocompute

The astronomical community has begun to discuss whether the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) will continue to the de facto standard for storage and exchange of data in astronomy. FITS has been standard since the 1980s, in part because of … Continue reading →

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Astronomical Data Formats – Past, Present and Future ADASS BOF Session

Posted on October 7, 2014 by astrocompute

This session began with a call to action from Bob Hanisch: FITS is 35 years old; how do we go forward? Should we use VO-agreed data models as the high-level abstraction, and use HDF5 as the processing and transport layer? … Continue reading →

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The Front Lines of ADASS 2014 – October 6 2014 Morning Sessions

Posted on October 6, 2014 by astrocompute

Nick Walton spoke about data processing challenges for PLATO, ESA’s next generation planet-hunter. It is an approved ESA M3 mission with a launch date in 2024, with a nominal six year mission. Broadly speaking, it aims to detect earth sized … Continue reading →

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The Front Lines of ADASS 2014 – October 5 2014

Posted on October 5, 2014 by astrocompute

This week, I will be posting about the technical sessions at the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems  XXIV meeting (ADASS, http://adass2014.org) in Calgary, Alberta. This annual meeting ” … is a forum for scientists, developers and programmers working in … Continue reading →

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The Impact of the Virtual Astronomical Observatory

Posted on August 29, 2014 by astrocompute

The U. S. Virtual Astronomical Observatory project, funded jointly by NSF and NASA since May 2010, will close on September 30, 2014. The project held its close-out review on July 10 and 11, 2014, and you can download the report … Continue reading →

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The One-Degree Imager – Portal, Pipeline and Archive (ODI-PPA) User Services

Posted on July 20, 2014 by astrocompute

Last week, I blogged about the ODI archive architecture, based on a talk given by Arvind Gopu at the SPIE Meeting in Montreal, Canada on June 22nd.  This week I will write about the user services layered on top of … Continue reading →

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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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