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| Paper: |
The NOAO Science Archive, Version 2.0 |
| Volume: |
295, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII |
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100 |
| Authors: |
Seaman, R.; Zárate, N.; Lauer, T.; Warner, P. B. |
| Abstract: |
The NOAO Science Archive (NSA) is a major step toward building a comprehensive scientific archive of the optical and infrared data holdings of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. The goals for the NSA are to rapidly create a scientifically useful archive of NOAO Survey data, to develop in-house expertise in the relevant technologies, to identify requirements for NOAO's developing comprehensive archive, and to create a high level of visibility as well as utility for both the NOAO Archive and NOAO Surveys, for example, through new Web services. The holdings of the NSA are drawn from the NOAO Survey program as well as from other coherent imaging or spectral, optical/IR reduced datasets that may be identified as candidates from NOAO or community facilities. Catalogs and other derived data products will be included in addition to images, spectra and the tools necessary to evaluate them. Synoptic, time-domain data is a special focus in anticipation of the needs of the LSST. The NSA team is working in coordination with other groups at NOAO who are focusing on data handling and data pipeline systems in the context of supporting NOAO instrumentation as well as the emerging National Virtual Observatory infrastructure. Planning for the NSA was started in November of 2001 by the Science Data Systems Group of the NOAO Data Products Program.Version 1.0 of the NSA was released in April, version 1.1 in July and version 1.2 in October of 2002. We discuss plans for Version 2.0 of NSA to be released in January of 2003. |
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