[fitsbits] Start of the Green Bank Keyword Convention Comment Period

[William Pence]

Oh, I see.  You are referring to the Single Dish convention (SDFITS) 
which was developed at Green Bank.  Instead, I'm referring to the much 
simpler "Green Bank" convention, at 
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/registry/greenbank.html.

I'm not proposing to close the public comment period on the SDFITS 
convention anytime soon because an off-line group of SDFITS users 
(including yourself) appears to be making some progress towards 
producing a more up-to-date description of the SDFITS convention.

regards,
Bill

Tom Kuiper wrote:
> William Pence wrote:
>> Can you be more explicit?  I only see one document listed on the Green 
>> Bank convention page.
>>   
> On http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/registry/sdfits.html
> under
> Full Documentation
> there are
> http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/registry/sdfits/sdfits.pdf, the 1995 draft by 
> Harvey Liszt
> and
> http://adswww.harvard.edu/abs/2000ASPC..216..243G by Bob Garwood.
> 
> The former uses the keywords MAXIS, MAXIS1, ... to describe the data 
> structure whereas the latter uses the TDIM keyword which is now in 
> general use.  I think Garwood's paper is correct but Harvey's gives more 
> detail.  For that reason, someone not familiar with all the background 
> might use Harvey's paper as the definitive one thinking that Bob's is 
> just a short version of the same thing.
> 
> Ideally, Harvey's paper would be modified to use the TDIM convention.  
> Also, I would like to see added to it the explanations of the keywords 
> and column names like those found in AIPS++ Memo 236 
> (http://aips2.nrao.edu/docs/notes/236/node14.html) or 
> https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/Main/SdfitsDetails.  But beware that 
> some core keywords were put in the shared category, which was probably a 
> mistake.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tom

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