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Making data compliant with the FAIR Data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) is still a challenge for many researchers, who are not sure which criteria should be met first and how. Illustrated from experimental data…

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Reproducibility is a cornerstone of science. FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data is often a vital step towards testing the reproducibility of results. The implementation of FAIR principles in the astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Susanne Pfalzner , Stephan Hachinger , Jolanta Zjupa , Salvatore Cielo , Frank W. Wagner , Marcus Brüggen , Annika Hagemeier

We present a summary of the major contributions to the Special Session on Data Management held at the IAU General Assembly in Prague in 2006. While recent years have seen enormous improvements in access to astronomical data, and the Virtual…

We present here a provenance management system adapted to astronomical projects needs. We collected use cases from various astronomy projects and defined a data model in the ecosystem developed by the IVOA (International Virtual Observatory…

The situation of data sharing in astronomy is positioned in the current general context of a political push towards, and rapid development of, scientific data sharing. Data is already one of the major infrastructures of astronomy, thanks to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Francoise Genova

Handling, processing and archiving the huge amount of data produced by the new generation of experiments and instruments in Astronomy and Astrophysics are among the more exciting challenges to address in designing the future data management…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-14 S. Bertocco , P. Dowler , S. Gaudet , B. Major , F. Pasian , G. Taffoni

With SKA precursor and pathfinder operations in full swing, radio and (sub-)mm astronomy is entering the era of super big data. The big questions is how to make (sub-)mm and radio data available to the astronomical community, preferably…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 K. A. Lutz , J. Dempsey , Y. G. Grange , M. Kettenis , M. Lacy , C. Schollar

FAIR Digital Object (FDO) is an emerging concept that is highlighted by European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as a potential candidate for building a ecosystem of machine-actionable research outputs. In this work we systematically evaluate FDO…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Stian Soiland-Reyes , Carole Goble , Paul Groth

Open science movement has established reproducibility, transparency, and validation of research outputs as essential norms for conducting scientific research. It advocates for open access to research outputs, especially research data, to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ranjeet Kumar Singh , Akanksha Nagpal , Arun Jadhav , Devika P. Madalli

Operation of the US Virtual Astronomical Observatory shares some issues with modern physical observatories, e.g., intimidating data volumes and rapid technological change, and must also address unique concerns like the lack of direct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Thomas A. McGlynn , Robert J. Hanisch , G. Bruce Berriman , Aniruddha R. Thakar

Access to astronomical data through archives and VO is essential but does not solve all problems. Availability of appropriate software for analyzing the data is often equally important for the efficiency with which a researcher can publish…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-27 P. Grosbol , D. Tody

Data Models are an essential part of automatic data processing, but even more so when trying to tie together data coming from many different data sources, as is the case for the International Virtual Observatory. In this talk we will review…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-20 J. D. Santander-Vela

The future of astronomy is inextricably entwined with the care and feeding of astronomical data products. Community standards such as FITS and NDF have been instrumental in the success of numerous astronomy projects. Their very success…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-05 Jessica Mink , Robert G. Mann , Robert Hanisch , Arnold Rots , Rob Seaman , Tim Jenness , Brian Thomas , William O'Mullane

A Virtual Observatory (VO) will enable transparent and efficient access, search, retrieval, and visualization of data across multiple data repositories, which are generally heterogeneous and distributed. Aspects of data mining that apply to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kirk D. Borne

The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) has developed and built, in the last two decades, an ecosystem of distributed resources, interoperable and based upon open shared technological standards. In doing so the IVOA has…

In the context of astronomy projects, scientists have been confronted with the problem of describing in a standardized way how their data have been produced. As presented in a talk at last year's ADASS, the International Virtual Observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-04 Michèle Sanguillon , François Bonnarel , Mireille Louys , Markus Nullmeier , Kristin Riebe , Mathieu Servillat

The principles of data spaces for sovereign data exchange across trusted organizations have so far mainly been adopted in business-to-business settings, and recently scaled to cloud environments. Meanwhile, research organizations have…

The U.S. Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO; http://www.us-vao.org/) has been in operation since May 2010. Its goal is to enable new science through efficient integration of distributed multi-wavelength data. This paper describes the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Bruce Berriman , Robert J. Hanisch , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Alexander Szalay , Giussepina Fabbiano