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NOAO Announcement on Changes to IRAF and Data Products Program

July 9th, 2005 by admin

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p>NOAO has posted on their web site an official announcement about upcoming changes to the Data Products Program. This includes news of a new “data flow system” for NOAO telescopes, and changed to IRAF support first leaked a few weeks ago.

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p>The majority of the document concerns details of the new NOAO Data Portal, which will involve with capturing, storing, and subsequently reducing data from NOAO facilities. The site also notes that this new system requires an “increasing fraction of the DPP effort” and hence changes are needed to IRAF support. Specfically they say:

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1. continue to maintain an IRAF website, which will
   1. provide access to current releases of the software
   2. contain improved static support information such as FAQs
   3. collect problem reports
2. continue to issue updates to IRAF as new versions of operating systems or compilers are released. We will try to fix bugs as we issue these updates, as resources allow.
3. organize discussions at upcoming science and technical meetings, such as the AAS, to try to establish a community-based mechanism for answering questions. One model we are considering is a moderated bulletin board for users to post questions and answers.

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p>I’ll make a subsequent post here with my editorial comments on all the news swirling around IRAF support and its future.

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