Category Archives: software maintenance

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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Valuing Software and Other Research Outputs – Talk by Dan Katz.

Posted on October 2, 2014 by astrocompute

This is the title of a paper presented by Dan Katz at the Altmetrics Conference in London. Dan is the Program Director, NSF Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, and one of the founders of the Working Towards Sustainable Software for Science: Practice … 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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Software Carpentry Lessons Learned – A Talk at Sci Py2014

Posted on August 22, 2014 by astrocompute

This is a video of a highly entertaining presentation by Greg Wilson, the founder of Software Carpentry, which teaches lab skills for scientific computing through intensive “boot camps” and on-line resources. The story of how Software Carpentry came about alone … Continue reading →

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SciPy2014 videos on-line

Posted on August 7, 2014 by astrocompute

This year’s annual Scientific Computing with Python conference, SciPy2014, was held in Austin ,TX, July 6-12 2014.  This conference “… allows participants from academic, commercial, and governmental organizations to showcase their latest Scientific Python projects, learn from skilled users and developers, … 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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The One-Degree Imager – Portal, Pipeline and Archive (ODI-PPA)

Posted on July 11, 2014 by astrocompute

This is the title of a fine presentation given by Arvind Gopu at the SPIE Meeting in Montreal, Canada on June 22nd.   The One-Degree Imager (ODI) is installed in the WIYN 3,5m telescope at Kitt Peak (Tucson, AZ). It … Continue reading →

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Ten things we would do differently today: Reflections on a decade of ALMA software development

Posted on July 3, 2014 by astrocompute

This is the title of an outstanding presentation given by Brian Glendenning and his team at the recent SPIE meeting in Montreal, Canada (June 22 -28, 2014).  The ALMA software has been an impressive effort over 12+ years,  involving 100 … 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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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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