The General Single-Dish Data format (GSDD) was developed in the mid-1980s as a data model to support centimeter, millimeter and submillimeter instrumentation at NRAO, JCMT, the University of Arizona and IRAM. We provide an overview of the GSDD requirements and associated data model, discuss the implementation of the resultant file formats, describe its usage in the observatories and provide a retrospective on the format.
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@article{arxiv.1506.03136,
title = {The General Single-Dish Data Format: A Retrospective},
author = {Tim Jenness and Elizabeth B. Stobie and Ronald J. Maddalena and Robert W. Garwood and Jon H. Fairclough and Richard M. Prestage and Remo P. J. Tilanus and Rachael Padman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.03136},
year = {2015}
}
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16 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomy & Computing special issue on file formats