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Standards, Management and Security of Astronomical Data Sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. S. Davis
M. S. Davis*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Astronomers have historically been among the first to apply or develop, at times, new technologies in the furtherance of their science. This has been especially true in the use of computers from their archaic, antediluvian beginnings to the present highly-developed, time-sharing, multiprocessing, teleprocessing systems. Thus, among the earliest applications in the last half century was the use by L. J. Comrie at the Greenwich Observatory of Hollerith machines for the construction of tables (Comrie, 1928). In 1940 Eckert described punched card methods for numerical integration, computation of a numerical lunar theory, computation of planetary perturbations, as well as applications in photometry and construction of star catalogues (Eckert, 1940). Indeed, one of the earliest collections of files for general use was available at the Watson Astronomical Bureau and included Boss’ General Catalogue of 33,342 stars, A. G. Catalogues, Yale Zone Catalogues, and Kohlschütter’s Catalogue.

Type
Part I. Standards for the Presentation of Data
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 35: Compilation, Critical Evaluation and Distribution of Stellar Data , 1977 , pp. 2 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1977

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