[daip] FITS IDI Format new document

[Craig Walker]

Locally, Walter Brisken should certainly get it.  He will know the 
extent to which other DiFX people should see it.  There is a DiFX email 
exploder that might be one appropriate destination.

A quick Google search shows:
The SMA uses it.
HALCA correlation centers - NAOJ, VLBA, and DRAO all use it.
JIVE uses it.
LWDA seems to use it.
I found an July 2008 exchange between you and James Anderson about 
making changes needed to support instruments like MWA, LOFAR, LWA etc. 
Is this what triggered the current effort?

I presume someone at each of the above would like to know of any 
standards modifications.  And there are likely to be others.

Cheers,

Craig



Eric Greisen wrote:
> The FITS Interferometry Data Interchange "Format" was first proposed in
> a Memo by Diamond et al. in 1997.  Chris Flatters wrote AIPS Memo 102 in 
> late 1998 to codify the proposal in more detail including changes 
> brought about by the actual implementation in the VLBA Correlator.
> 
> But Chris' document was left to us only in a fancy-looking PostScript 
> document, with no supporting text document that could be corrected and 
> enhanced!  So I have transcribed Memo 102 (without the elegant 
> formatting), updated some stuff, corrected obvious errors, and added 4 
> more tables, 2 of which are actually in use.
> 
> This draft should be reviewed by interested parties, so I attach the 
> Memo 102 and my new memo draft.  The latter uses red color to highlight 
> most of the changes I have made, so, if you print it, use a color 
> printer (e.g. aoc352c/dup here).  The red color is hard to read when 
> printed on a B&W printer.
> 
> Can you think of people in the outside community who should see these?
> If so, send me their e-mail addresses.  Eventually, this draft will get 
> submitted to the IAU FITS Committee for review as a "convention".
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric

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