CODATA: Montreal September 30, 2002
•Past
history
–Canada has benefited enormously from open data access
(and facility access) policies of
the United States
•Data access: Largely NASA
•Facility access: NOAO and many others
•NASA
has been very progressive
•Many
facilities have had no channels to access data (NOAO) , some do not save and protect data (e.g., Keck telescopes: U.
California and California Institute
of Technology)
•Europe has
been very progressive: BUT now
the archives of the European Southern Observatory are CLOSED to astronomers outside of Europe.
Data
Policy: Dark clouds on the horizon