[Observation] - Scope?

Martin Hill mch at roe.ac.uk
Fri May 14 06:59:37 PDT 2004


Thanks Jonathan - So it is about describing an observation, rather than 
modelling the actual measurements? We're not expecting the model to hold the 
raw or calibrated data?

On Friday 14 May 2004 2:17 pm, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> Martin, the idea is that Observation is mainly about general metadata
> you'd need for any dataset, and specifically for observed data either
> raw or calibrated. I would say the intent so far is that it not cover
> extracted data (catalogs etc) but the hope is that some of it can
> carry over to catalogs. So think of it for now as covering
> images, event lists, spectra, and possibly radio data (if we can fold
> in Anita's comments).
>  - Jonathan

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