Monday, September 3, 2012

1208.6299 (Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn et al.)

The Data Zoo in Astro-WISE    [PDF]

Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn, Andrey N. Belikov, John P. McFarland
In this paper we describe the way the Astro-WISE information system (or simply Astro-WISE) supports the data from a wide range of in- struments and combines multiple surveys and their catalogues. Astro-WISE allows ingesting of data from any optical instrument, survey or catalogue, pro- cessing of this data to create new catalogues and bringing in data from di?erent surveys into a single catalogue, keeping all dependencies back to the original data. Full data lineage is kept on each step of compiling a new catalogue with an ability to add a new data source recursively. With these features, Astro- WISE allows not only combining and retrieving data from multiple surveys, but performing scientific data reduction and data mining down to the rawest data in the data processing chain within a single environment.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.6299

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