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Open Universe Open Service Obligations A.M.T. Pollock University of Sheffield A.M.Pollock@sheffield.ac.uk United Nations Vienna International Centre, 2017 November 22 The LSST Science Platform: Accessing LSST Data


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Open Universe Open Service Obligations A.M.T. Pollock

University of Sheffield

A.M.Pollock@sheffield.ac.uk

United Nations Vienna International Centre, 2017 November 22

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LSST SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING | SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2017

The LSST Science Platform: Accessing LSST Data and Enabling LSST Science

Portal JupyterLab

User Databases

LSST Science Platform

Software Tools User Computing User Files Data Releases Alert Streams

Web APIs

Internet LSST Users

The LSST Science Platform is a set

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integrated web applications and services deployed at the LSST Data Access Centers (DACs) through which the scientific community will access, visualize, subset and perform next-to-the-data analysis

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the data.

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1987ApJ...320..283P

The Einstein View of the Wolf-Rayet Stars (1987)

A single page of results that took 3 years to assemble 30 years ago could now take 3 clicks.

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Deconstruction exercise

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Notions underlying Open Service Obligations

  • Maximise
  • Scientific return
  • Calibration responsibility
  • Algorithmic quality
  • Statistical rigour
  • Provenance
  • Aesthetic & intuitive appeal
  • IVOA use
  • Minimise
  • Duplication
  • Platform dependencies
  • Inoperability
  • Clutter
  • Privilege
  • Equalise
  • Big data and small data
  • Rights