Dear all,
As announced at the very end of the DM3 session in Boston last Friday a small group of DM people including Mireille Louys, Jonathan, Brian Thomas, Alberto Micol and me will start a new task which is to describe in the Observation/quantity field various aspects which seem to be missing in the drafts at the moment (except a very premiminary "Packaging" section in the last version of the Observation draft)
Just to summarize what it is all about:
Brian's "private" proposal about External Resource, including
Format Mime/types of the Files
computer encoding ....
Transform encoding / compression
File size
Packaging of Science data with background, weight maps, sources
Pointers to real data and "Location" of relevant data in the dataset
Different views of the same observation (Full dataset, cutouts, previews, thubnails ....)
Versioning ?
Observations and "Related sub-observations" (eg HST associations, CCD mosaics, etc ...)
We will try to produce something to be discussed before giving our thoughts to the list in a chaotic way. So if you are interested please send a mail to me or Jonathan, we will start as a sub-group.
Regards
François
Francois Bonnarel Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg CDS (Centre de donnees 11, rue de l'Universiteastronomiques de Strasbourg) F--67000 Strasbourg (France)
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