<div dir="auto">I'll be at ADASS and would be happy to be the host of such a BoF:<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"> The Future of FITS and Other Standardized Astronomical Data Formats.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We'll hear from several groups who are generating data</div><div dir="auto">and how they have been using FITS standards and extended standards in newer projects. Some have had to solve problems which have caused them to use or create standards which are beyond FITS. Are people talking across projects about new standards, even partial ones? Have people published details of their standard formats? Where?</div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Jessica Mink</div><div dir="auto"> Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian</div><div dir="auto"> SAO Telescope Data Center</div><div dir="auto"> Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 4, 2023, 13:04 Seaman, Robert Lewis - (rseaman) via fitsbits <<a href="mailto:fitsbits@listmgr.nrao.edu">fitsbits@listmgr.nrao.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Howdy,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The abstract deadline for ADASS BoFs is past. We have about a 2x oversubscription. I submitted a placeholder abstract, see below, which, in early scoring, is doing okay. There’s another FITS-related abstract
that could likely be merged – of course, perhaps that one (“FITS Data Displays for Observatory Operations”) will gobble up this one.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Suggestions for topics? Wordsmithing? Is anybody for throwing in the towel and returning to IRAF OIF format?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The session will need a chair since I’m likely to be juggling conference shenanigans. Volunteers?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Title: FITS or not FITS, that is the question<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Abstract: The FITS data standard has served astronomers well for four decades. The original integer image format has been revised to support additional pixel data types, to support world coordinates and
other scientific metadata, to include an integrated data compression framework, and to support generalized binary tables, among other features.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>In the intervening years, a variety of alternative scientific data standards have been proposed. If used operationally, these usually reach only a limited audience specific
to a particular project or community. No other format has ever garnered the widespread support of FITS.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Where do we go from here? How can a mature standard like FITS continue to evolve? What formal standardization process should be followed?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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