RDADenverfeedback

AndréSchaaffCentredeDonnéesastronomiquesdeStrasbourgIVOA,Trieste,2016

Outline

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Aquickfeedbackwithafocus

onafewtopics

BigDataIG

•  MoreinteresJngwhenitwasBigDataanalyJcs.

•  Wasmainly(thisJme)anintroducJonoftheArrayDatabaseWG.

•  AstronomycouldhaveanacJoninthisgroup(orinthisdomain)butneedsaninvestment.

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ArrayDatabaseAssessmentWG

•  “Focusisstrictlyonarrays(rasters)tobeabletoachievemeaningfulresults”(rasterDBMS:capabiliJesforstorageandretrievalofmassivemulJ-dimensionalarrays).

•  2usecaseproviders–  EarthScience–  Iamvolunteerforausecaseinastronomy

•  OtherparJcipantsshouldprovidethesoXwareside,maybestorageandcompuJngJme.

•  Comments…

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ReproducibilityIG

•  Thisinterestgroupseekstoadvanceandenablereproducibilityinresearchbasedonorproducingdatasets

•  VeryinteresJngtalkfromAndreasRauber–  Linktoaschoolaroundthistopic–  h]p://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/5817/pdf/

dagrep_v006_i001_p108_s16041.pdf

•  Utopia?•  EfficientacJons:

–  Welldocumentedsourcecode–  Welldocumentedmethodology–  Welldocumentedworkflowanddataflow–  Well…

•  Comments…

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DataVersioningBoF

•  Hugevolumeofdataproduced(mulJ-tera,..,petabytes),potenJallydynamicallychanging,etc.

•  DataCitaJonWG->needfordataversioning•  NeedofaBestpracJce?•  Comments...

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ResearchDataRepositoryInteroperabilityBoF(WG)

•  Theaimistoestablishstandardsforresearchdatarepositoryplajormsinteroperability– Overviewoftechnologiesandcontactpersonforeachone

– Workonageneric“export/import”formatsandAPI

•  Comments…

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SoXwareforBe]erDescripJonandRetrievalofOnlineScienJficDataBoF

•  MainlyapplicaJonsdemos•  Comments...

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