The Data Zoo in Astro-WISE
Abstract
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 different 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.
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@article{arxiv.1208.6299,
title = {The Data Zoo in Astro-WISE},
author = {Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn and Andrey N. Belikov and John P. McFarland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.6299},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in topical issue of Experimental Astronomy on Astro-WISE information system