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| Paper: |
A Public Data Archive for the Italian Radio Telescopes |
| Volume: |
522, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVII |
| Page: |
463 |
| Authors: |
Zanichelli, A.; Knapic, C.; Simona, R.; Mauro, N.; Stagni, M.; Bedosti, F.; Bartolini, M.; Sponza, M.; Orlati, A.; Smareglia, R. |
| Abstract: |
The amount of data delivered by modern instrumentation and observing techniques
is bringing radio astronomy in the era of Big Data, and the nowadays widely
adopted Open Data policies allow free and open access to data from many radio
astronomy facilities. A fundamental ingredient to enable Open Science in the
radio astronomical community and to engage also public participation (the so
called Citizen Science) is thus the availability of public archives in which
data can be accessed and searched with modern software tools.
A web-based, VO-compliant public archive has been built to host data from the
Italian radio telescopes managed by the National Institute for Astrophysics
(INAF). The archive main features consist in the capability to handle the
various types of data coming from the different observing instrumentation at
the telescopes; the adoption of a policy to guarantee the data proprietary
period; the accessibility of data through a web interface and the adoption of
VO standards to allow for successful scientific exploitation of the archive
itself in the data mining era.
We present the progress status of the public Data Archive for the Italian
radio telescopes being developed to provide the international community
with a state-of-the-art archive for radio astronomical data. |
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