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Data Distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

B. Hauck
B. Hauck*
Affiliation:
Institut d’Astronomie de l’Université de Lausanne et Observatoire de Genève, Switzerland

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Before answering, or trying to answer, the question “how to distribute astronomical and astrophysical data”, it is necessary to reply briefly to the question “why distribute these data?” This question is not so trivial as it first appears and it even hides the basic problem.

Data acquisition in itself is a single or manifold technique, often very delicate, constituting in itself a whole field of research. The interpretation of data follows it and will not necessarily be made by the same people. Very often only one possible aspect will be examined. It is consequently absolutely necessary that the data should be disseminated as widely as possible in order that they are used to the utmost. If it is necessary to assure the dissemination of data, it is no less necessary to ascertain their conservation. I shall give here only one example: the observations which have permitted to obtain the light curve of the quasar 3C273.

Type
Part IV. The Distribution of Data
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 35: Compilation, Critical Evaluation and Distribution of Stellar Data , 1977 , pp. 154 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1977

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