[fitsbits] ADASS FITS BoF Minutes

[David Berry]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, William Pence wrote:

> Minutes of the ADASS FITS Birds-of-a-Feather Session
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> 5.  Status of the WCS Paper III on Spectral Coordinate Systems
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> Several of the authors of this paper were in attendance (Eric Greisen, Frank
> Valdes, and Steve Allen) and led a brief discussion. This paper is now in
> the Public Comment Period phase of the formal approval process, so everyone
> was encouraged to carefully review the paper and submit comments on FITSBITS
> by 12 November.  Much of the discussion concerned what, if anything, should
> be required in the way of interoperability testing before the FITS
> committees vote on the proposal. It was noted that Mark Calabretta's wcslib
> software library supports most of the WCS conventions defined in the paper
> but there is little in the way of other software to enable independent
> testing.

The AST library (http://www.starlink.ac.uk/ast/) also supports most of the
paper III conventions with the one main exception that there is as yet no
support for -TAB.

David