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COMMISSION 5: DOCUMENTATION AND ASTRONOMICAL DATA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2008

Raymond P. Norris ,
Masatoshi Ohishi ,
Françoise Genova ,
Uta Grothkopf ,
Oleg Yu. Malkov ,
William D. Pence ,
Marion Schmitz ,
Robert J. Hanisch  and
Xu Zhou
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IAU Commission 5 deals with data management issues, and its working groups and task groups deal specifically with information handling, with data centres and networks, with technical aspects of collection, archiving, storage and dissemination of data, with designations and classification of astronomical objects, with library services, editorial policies, computer communications, ad hoc methodologies, and with various standards, reference frames, etc., FITS, astronomys Flexible Image Transport System, the major data exchange format, is controlled, maintained and updated by the Working Group FITS.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Transactions T27A: Transactions IAU , December 2008 , pp. 359 - 360
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