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| Paper: |
CyberSKA Radio Imaging Metadata and VO Compliance Engineering |
| Volume: |
475, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXII |
| Page: |
231 |
| Authors: |
Anderson, K. R.; Rosolowsky, E.; Dowler, P. |
| Abstract: |
The CyberSKA project has written a specification for the metadata encapsulation of radio astronomy data products pursuant to insertion into the VO-compliant Common Archive Observation Model (CAOM) database hosted by the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC). This specification accommodates radio FITS Image and UV Visibility data, as well as pure CASA Tables Imaging and Visibility Measurement Sets. To extract and engineer radio metadata, we have authored two software packages: metaData (v0.5.0) and mddb (v1.3). Together, these Python packages can convert all the above stated data format types into concise FITS-like header files, engineer the metadata to conform to the CAOM data model, and then insert these engineered data into the CADC database, which subsequently becomes published through the Canadian Virtual Observatory. The metaData and mddb packages have, for the first time, published ALMA imaging data on VO services. Our ongoing work aims to integrate visibility data from ALMA and the SKA into VO services and to enable user-submitted radio data to move seamlessly into the Virtual Observatory. |
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