{"id":10136,"date":"2023-06-25T17:05:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=10136"},"modified":"2023-06-25T17:06:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:06:05","slug":"radio-astronomy-data-sharing-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/?p=10136","title":{"rendered":"Radio Astronomy Data sharing on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Corvillon, PHT,<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/asa.alma.cl\/UserRegistration\/newAccount.jsp<\/p>\n<p>I was looking at your data sharing page at https:\/\/almascience.nrao.edu\/aq\/?result_view=observations<\/p>\n<p>On the registration page, it failed because &#8220;The Internet Foundation&#8221; was not in your list.\u00a0 That would also seem to restrict anyone from most of the Internet not in your list from registering.\u00a0 There are roughly 5 billion humans with some access to the Internet now.\u00a0 I am 74.\u00a0 There are about 700 Million people now older than 65.\u00a0 Many of them have worked all their lives and are not currently &#8220;working&#8221; at one of the organizations in your list.\u00a0 Your list is not visible.\u00a0 Your list does not have categories.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet Foundation sets policies for sharing on the Internet.\u00a0 23 Jul 2023 is the 25th Anniversary of the Internet Foundation.\u00a0 I studied astrophysics at UMD College Park in the last 1970&#8217;s . But ended up studying detection of dynamic gravitational fields. (Joe Weber, Robert Forward, Charles Misner are names you might recognize)<\/p>\n<p>I tried\u00a0 to find samples of data.\u00a0 I can read CASA Measurement Sets but missing some information.<\/p>\n<p>These projects and MOUS do not seem to have basic data on when, how long, what frequencies, how many records, how much data of what type.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got to where I could get lists of mous like uid:\/\/A001\/X62\/X2a and can download that. But it seemed better to register.\u00a0 Except I could not.\u00a0 There is no easy way I could see to get an overview of the groups in your &#8220;list&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Is there something that tells me how many observations went into uid:\/\/A001\/X62\/X2a?\u00a0 Time and frequency slots?\u00a0 File sizes are not very useful to know the contents.\u00a0 When I click for detail from uid:\/\/A001\/X62\/X2a the url hides the selection so I cannot bookmark.\u00a0 Going back wipes out the selection.<\/p>\n<p>Trying again, I searched for one MOU and then got to https:\/\/almascience.nrao.edu\/aq\/?result_view=observations&amp;mous=uid:%2F%2FA001%2FX62%2FX2a.\u00a0 Not sure why it only gave https:\/\/almascience.nrao.edu\/aq\/?result_view=observations the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any way to get more detail on the data in files like 2011.0.00191.S_2011-12-06_006_of_023.tar without downloading them? This was the first in the list and it is &#8220;11 GB&#8221; with zero metadata that I can see.<\/p>\n<p>Most users of the Internet (there are probably millions who could understand what the data is all about and use online tools for education and research) if they could see what is in large files without having to download them and somehow find the software and somehow find the formats.\u00a0 Billions of humans are interested in space now, and tens of millions have the backgrounds in science and math to work with algorithms, data and observations, particularly AI assisted (&#8220;machine learning&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Corvillon, PHT, https:\/\/asa.alma.cl\/UserRegistration\/newAccount.jsp I was looking at your data sharing page at https:\/\/almascience.nrao.edu\/aq\/?result_view=observations On the registration page, it failed because &#8220;The Internet Foundation&#8221; was not in your list.\u00a0 That would also seem to restrict anyone from most of the Internet not in your list from registering.\u00a0 There are roughly 5 billion humans with some <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"\/?p=10136\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assistive-technologies","category-collaborative-global-model-of-the-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10137,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions\/10137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}