[fitsbits] ADASS FITS BoF {External}

[Mink, Jessica]

I'll be at ADASS and would be happy to be the host of such a BoF:

 The Future of FITS and Other Standardized Astronomical Data Formats.

We'll hear from several groups who are generating data
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?

-Jessica Mink
 Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
 SAO Telescope Data Center
 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

On Mon, Sep 4, 2023, 13:04 Seaman, Robert Lewis - (rseaman) via fitsbits <
fitsbits at listmgr.nrao.edu> wrote:

> Howdy,
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> 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.
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> Suggestions for topics? Wordsmithing? Is anybody for throwing in the towel
> and returning to IRAF OIF format?
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> The session will need a chair since I’m likely to be juggling conference
> shenanigans. Volunteers?
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> Rob
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> Title: FITS or not FITS, that is the question
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Where do we go from here? How can a mature standard like FITS continue to
> evolve? What formal standardization process should be followed?
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