Telescope and Instruments Nomenclature

Meeting in Strasbourg 2018, 21-23 Feb

Participants: Baptiste Cecconi, Emmanuelle Perret, Andrea Preite Martinez, Sebastien Derriere , Gilles Landais, Mireille Louys

• Baptiste :
  • presents the collaboration with Tarek Al-Ubaidi, Space research institute , Graz, Austria. From various lists of instruments and facilities, Tarek and col. have developed a library / code to merge similar items appearing in different lists. Several modes are available: merge 2 lists, merge several several lists, on ids, on names, with one or several passes with criteria refinements
  • Testing the merging scripts
    • lists of instruments/facilities to test : they have been uploaded to a git node here
    • how to documentation
    • tests:
      • iau-mpc wrt aas :
      • etc ..TBC
    • need to train the merging program , and give hints to the program and to the user for a sensible usage...
    • more tests to come TBC
• Mireille /Emmanuelle
  • Review of the PDS4 information Model (Planetary data system) from NASA https://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/pds4/doc/im/current/index_1900.html
  • Concepts clearly identified to represent metadata on instruments, telescopes, space-crafts etc.
  • Minimal model covering the notions we consider useful to populate from various lists
  • Class diagram

• Mireille /Emmanuelle