<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6">Hi everyone,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6">I'm going to lead my last FITS BoF in less than a month, and I'd like it to mostly be a discussion about future data standards which will incorporate, translate to, or succeed FITS. It seems like each large new telescope or instrument group is putting together its own standards, and I'd like to discuss ho it all relates to the main standard which was built in the past, FITS. I'd like to hear from anyone who can contribute a few words and slides about what they're doing or think is practical to do to relate data and metadata in an archival and/or transferable way. One abstract has been submitted so far.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6">Here's the accepted abstract:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6">The Future of FITS and Other Standardized Astronomical Data Formats.<br>Led by Jessica Mink, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory<br><br>The FITS data standard has served astronomers well for four decades.<br>The original integer image format has been revised to support additional<br>pixel data types, to support world coordinates and other scientific<br>metadata, to include an integrated data compression framework, and to<br>support generalized binary tables, among other features.  Over the years,<br>a variety of alternative scientific data standards have been proposed.<br>These usually reach only a limited audience specific to a particular<br>project or community. No other format has ever garnered the widespread<br>support of FITS.<br><br>We'll hear from several groups who are generating data and how they<br>have been using FITS standards and extending or creating standards<br>for newer projects.  Are people talking across projects about new<br>standards, even partial ones? Have people published details of their<br>standard formats? Where?</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6">-Jessica Mink</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6"> <a href="mailto:jmink@cfa.harvard.edu">jmink@cfa.harvard.edu</a><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-128dae2e-7fff-e8a8-c303-9730987f78b6"></span></div></div>