TY - JOUR
T1 - NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library
T2 - From data archiving to data publishing
AU - Plante, Raymond L.
AU - Crutcher, Richard M.
AU - McGrath, Robert E.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Randy Sharpe for his technical contributions to the BIMA Data Archive and the ADIL as well as all the astronomers that have contributed their images to the Library’s collection. This work was supported by NSF High Performance Computing and Communications grant (ASC 92-17384), Project Horizon (a NASA CAN), and Project 30 (a NASA AISRP grant, NAG 5-4228).
PY - 1999/11
Y1 - 1999/11
N2 - The NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library (ADIL)2, a repository providing astronomers with research-quality images over the Web, represents the final stage of the data-research pipeline that begins at the telescope and ends with the publication of scientific results. By examining the ADIL's mission and architecture, we will highlight some of the challenges arising from the development of a scientific data library. After an overview of the motivation and context surrounding the Library, we will present the two faces of its user interface: one for those looking for data, and one for those wishing to add to the Library's collection. We will then outline the design of the Library's back-end system, describing some of the technical choices made during its development. Finally, we will examine the role of the ADIL in the evolving life cycle of scientific data, highlighting two important issues: interoperability and data publishing. Today, the data life cycle is almost entirely electronic; thus, the scientific data library becomes a critical part of the solution to the `Data Crisis' in astronomy: keeping up with the exploding growth of new data.
AB - The NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library (ADIL)2, a repository providing astronomers with research-quality images over the Web, represents the final stage of the data-research pipeline that begins at the telescope and ends with the publication of scientific results. By examining the ADIL's mission and architecture, we will highlight some of the challenges arising from the development of a scientific data library. After an overview of the motivation and context surrounding the Library, we will present the two faces of its user interface: one for those looking for data, and one for those wishing to add to the Library's collection. We will then outline the design of the Library's back-end system, describing some of the technical choices made during its development. Finally, we will examine the role of the ADIL in the evolving life cycle of scientific data, highlighting two important issues: interoperability and data publishing. Today, the data life cycle is almost entirely electronic; thus, the scientific data library becomes a critical part of the solution to the `Data Crisis' in astronomy: keeping up with the exploding growth of new data.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0167-739X(99)00035-7
DO - 10.1016/S0167-739X(99)00035-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033334891
SN - 0167-739X
VL - 16
SP - 49
EP - 61
JO - Future Generation Computer Systems
JF - Future Generation Computer Systems
IS - 1
ER -