CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA)
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CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA)
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2015
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The CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA) Project has been established to build and implement the archive at the Pawsey Centre and build the data transfer infrastructure required between MRO and Pawsey. The rates of data arriving at the Pawsey Centre are approximately 2.5 Gigabytes (GB) per second, equivalent to 75 Petabytes (PB) per year - hence the need for archiving. The best way to get a return on investment for this huge investment was to make the data open. Open data is crucial to getting the best science from your telescope - both original and derived science.
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Building
Electric generator
Spherical cap
Multiplication sign
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Point (geometry)
Medical imaging
Raw image format
Form (programming)
Supercomputer
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File archiver
Volume (thermodynamics)
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Data management
Programming paradigm
Data quality
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Uniform resource locator
File archiver
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Open set
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Projective plane
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Open set
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State observer
Patch (Unix)
Projective plane
File archiver
Open set
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File archiver
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Multiplication sign
Videoconferencing
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as cap is a radio telescope that we're building in Western Australia it's a new generation of radio telescope which will be able to survey the whole sky to great depths and what we want to find out is how do galaxies evolve over time so the
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data comes off the telescope in raw form and gets transmitted by optical fiber to the supercomputer Center in Perth at
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that point the data gets processed and it gets converted into images of the sky and those images will be made available
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to astronomers worldwide we've asked up
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the data volumes are truly enormous and so to make it easier to archive it and
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also to make it easier for the astronomers who are going to use it the data was actually processed quite a lot before it gets to be archived so that raises a new paradigm in a sense if you
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want to be very sure that your data quality is very good
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before you do archive it so the great
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thing about archives is that you put the data in in a central location and then
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anybody can get it from there the best way to get return on the investment of
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this big telescope was to have completely open access data policy there
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were two reasons we did this one is because of the internationalization of astronomy generally the sky is up there for anybody to look at the second reason
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was we've got these big teams set up who
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know the projects they want to do it's important to keep them honest it's
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important that they publish and do the
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stuff with the data they've got they can't just leave it languishing you know
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for 10 years and then oh yes well maybe I'll do something was Daytona they can't
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do that anymore because the data is freely available to anybody and somebody
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might nip in and steal their idea Open
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Data I think is really crucial to getting the best science from your telescope we're building a very expensive telescope and it's important that the best science gets done so let's say for example have a really good idea for a science project and I want to look at this patch of sky over here I go away and I look at it and I do my own thing then the data sits in the archive and somebody from somewhere else might have a another completely different idea to do with the same data patch they will go away extract the data from the archive have look at it do their own clever science and publish something completely different so therefore the same
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observation you've got two pieces of clever science one piece that the original person never even thought of and so that's the really great advantage in having open access data the questions
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that it can answer are maybe questions that you haven't even thought of yet and that that's I think the beauty of a data archive so I can carry out an experiment
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to do what I want to do because I've had that idea but then maybe in the future you know science always moves on and there's always different things to do so
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in the future somebody I'll have a completely different question that I haven't thought of and they can use that data to answer their questions they don't need to go back and take expensive telescope time they can just look at the data that exists already to help answer their questions
