[fitsbits] Future of FITS BoF at ADASS in Tucson, November 6 {External}

[Mink, Jessica]

Hi everyone,
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.

Here's the accepted abstract:

The Future of FITS and Other Standardized Astronomical Data Formats.
Led by Jessica Mink, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

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.  Over the years,
a variety of alternative scientific data standards have been proposed.
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.

We'll hear from several groups who are generating data and how they
have been using FITS standards and extending or creating standards
for newer projects.  Are people talking across projects about new
standards, even partial ones? Have people published details of their
standard formats? Where?

-Jessica Mink
jmink at cfa.harvard.edu
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