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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Archive Server

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Eric H. Neilsen Jr.Authors Info & Claims

Computing in Science and Engineering, Volume 10, Issue 1

Pages 13 - 17

https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2008.16

Published: 01 January 2008 Publication History

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s Data Archive Server (DAS) provides public access to data files produced by the SDSS data reduction pipeline. This article discusses challenges in public distribution of data of this complexity and how the project addressed them.

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Archive Server
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Visualization
    1. Visualization application domains
      1. Scientific visualization
2. Information systems

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Computing in Science and Engineering Volume 10, Issue 1

January 2008

94 pages

ISSN:1521-9615

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