Category Archives: Web 2.0

From The Front Lines of ADASS – Day 3 Morning

Posted on October 2, 2013 by astrocompute

The morning session on Day 3 was on the topic of emerging technologies. Steve Groom began festivities with a talk on Innovative ways of using database technologies.  He described the techniques that are used at IRSA to ingest data into … Continue reading →

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From The Front Lines of ADASS XXIII – Day Two Morning

Posted on October 1, 2013 by astrocompute

Yesterday evening, there was a BOF on FITS, and much of the discussion centered on whether FITS is nearing the end of its useful lifetime. There was some discussion on whether, e.g., the IAU Commission on FITS should evolve into … Continue reading →

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dot Astronomy 5 Conference From A Distance

Posted on September 23, 2013 by astrocompute

Last week, the fifth annual dot Astronomy conference was held in Cambridge, MA. This event is a little different from other conferences: its goal is to advance the use of new compute technologies in the service of astronomy, from computing … Continue reading →

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The Berkeley Python Boot Camp Fall 2013

Posted on September 2, 2013 by astrocompute

One of the best ways to learn a programming language is to take an intensive class for a few days and immerse yourself in it: as one example, you may be familiar with the Sci Coder classes. UC Berkeley has … Continue reading →

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Practices in source code sharing in astrophysics

Posted on April 29, 2013 by astrocompute

Shamir et al. (2o13) have recently posted a preprint on astro-ph of a paper that will appear in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Astronomy and Computing (the text is reproduced below). The paper makes the bold proposal that … Continue reading →

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Astronomy Source Code Library Closes In On 600 Codes!

Posted on March 4, 2013 by astrocompute

Since I first wrote about it in in July 2011, the Astronomy Source Code Library (ASCL) has grown from referencing 200 codes to close on 600. This valuable resource, run entirely by volunteer effort, indexes codes that have been used … Continue reading →

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STScI’s Engineering and Technology Colloquia Series Webcasts

Posted on February 18, 2013 by astrocompute

Last week, I wrote a post about Michelle Borkin’s presentation on Astronomical Medicine and Beyond, part of the Space Telescope Science Institute’s (STScI) Engineering and Technology Colloquia Series. STScI archives and posts on-line all the presentations in this series. The … Continue reading →

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Unproceedings from the .Astronomy4 Conference, Heidelberg, July 2012

Posted on January 25, 2013 by astrocompute

Broadly speaking, the .Astronomy conference series aims to bring together astronomers, software engineers and educators who wish to explore how to use “Web 2.0” technologies to serve astronomy and astronomy outreach. The conferences are by design interactive and informal, with … Continue reading →

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Astrophysics Code Sharing? AAS Splinter Meeting, January 2013

Posted on January 18, 2013 by astrocompute

In the age of data intensive astronomy, software has come to be regarded as an instrument, and the question of when and whether code should be shared in astronomy (and indeed across all scientific disciplines) is a topic of debate … Continue reading →

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The Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) at the 221st AAS Meeting

Posted on January 11, 2013 by astrocompute

The VAO is funded to provide a computational infrastructure for virtual astronomy.  When complete, it will enable astronomers to discover and access data in archives worldwide, allow them to share and publish datasets, and support analysis of data through an … Continue reading →

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