CODATA: Montreal  September 30, 2002
Outline
•History and CADC
–I will neglect NASA and concentrate on what I know
•CFHT archived their digital data in the 1980’s
•Plates were taken home but remained the property of the observatory which never recalled them
–Hubble Space Telescope opened doors in archiving for optical astronomers
–Archiving is a word that has outlived its usefulness
•Archive functions: Store,protect,catalogue, facilitate access, lobby for open data policy
•Non-archive functions: Develop processing pipelines to add value
–Archive Status: Do astronomers do research with archival data? YES  HST examples
•Deliver the archive over and over/ Megan’s publication numbers
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A Brief History of Data Archiving in Astronomy