Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
The Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) standard has been a great boon to astronomy, allowing observatories, scientists and the public to exchange astronomical information easily. The FITS standard, however, is showing its age. Developed in the late 1970s, the FITS authors made a number of implementation choices that, while common at the time, are now seen to limit its utility with modern data. The authors of the FITS standard could not anticipate the challenges which we are facing today in astronomical computing. Difficulties we now face include, but are not limited to, addressing the need to handle an expanded range of specialized data product types (data models), being more conducive to the networked exchange and storage of data, handling very large datasets, and capturing significantly more complex metadata and data relationships. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2015 | 10.1016/j.ascom.2015.01.009 | Astronomy and Computing |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
FITS,File formats,Standards | File format,Data mining,Data modeling,Metadata,Computer science,Interoperability,Transport system,Product type,Sextant (astronomical) | Journal |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
12 | 2213-1337 | 4 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.69 | 11 | 38 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Thomas | 1 | 5 | 1.46 |
| Tim Jenness | 2 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Frossie Economou | 3 | 8 | 1.43 |
| Perry Greenfield | 4 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Paul Hirst | 5 | 4 | 0.69 |
| David S. Berry | 6 | 8 | 1.77 |
| Erik Bray | 7 | 7 | 1.16 |
| Norman Gray | 8 | 21 | 4.85 |
| Demitri Muna | 9 | 4 | 0.69 |
| James Turner | 10 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Miguel de Val-Borro | 11 | 4 | 1.36 |
| Juande Santander-Vela | 12 | 4 | 0.69 |
| David Shupe | 13 | 4 | 0.69 |
| John Good | 14 | 1267 | 83.64 |
| G. Bruce Berriman | 15 | 994 | 69.33 |
| Slava Kitaeff | 16 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Jonathan Fay | 17 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Omar Laurino | 18 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Anastasia Alexov | 19 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Walter Landry | 20 | 4 | 1.36 |
| Joe Masters | 21 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Adam Brazier | 22 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Reinhold Schaaf | 23 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Kevin Edwards | 24 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Russell O. Redman | 25 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Thomas R. Marsh | 26 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Ole Streicher | 27 | 4 | 1.03 |
| Pat Norris | 28 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Sergio Pascual | 29 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Matthew Davie | 30 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Michael Droettboom | 31 | 7 | 1.16 |
| Thomas Robitaille | 32 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Riccardo Campana | 33 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Alex Hagen | 34 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Paul Hartogh | 35 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Dominik Klaes | 36 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Matthew W. Craig | 37 | 4 | 0.69 |
| Derek Homeier | 38 | 4 | 0.69 |