Work to Do (was: Lots of Data)

["Glenn Gombert" <glenngombert@hotmail.com>]

Mike G’ has raised several good points:

“We've been down this road before with the Mark III and Tom is right, there
is a strong tendency for us programmer types to want to do it all ourselves.
That's the way it started with the Mark III with at least three analysis
programs (Star, IRAF and Sextractor) and  two databases developed (one for
Oracle and one for PostgreSQL).  In the end only one combination resulted in
published data, the Star - PostgreSQL chain that resulted in the tenxcat.”


  In addition to PostgreSQL and Oracle I also build my own (local Dayton) 
copy of the database of collected data ..that I used to hunt for new 
variables…and to publish a number of newly discovered ones. This was based 
on Arne’s set of Mark III data reduction routines ..which he wrote for us to 
use to combine data with ..during the 1996 AAS meeting (which worked so well 
here in Dayton that I used them for the whole three years that I collected 
and processed data ..with the Mark III here)..

  I think that the Mark IV effort will probably be much the same. with each 
Mark IV Camera site  developing their own “local” copy …using what ever 
flavor of their favorite database. and related operating system….(Win32, 
Linux etc)…

  I will probably use my current (Mark III) ASCII text file database…as a 
‘seed’ catalog to populate my next generation (Mark IV) database.

  I am sure that the current TASS Mark III database will require some 
significant overhauls…before it can be used for Mark IV data storage…..

Glenn G.

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