Miscellaneous documentation relevant to WFCAM/VISTA Science Archive Development

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Conference papers

WFCAM Science Archive paper presented at ADASS 2004 (available in PDF or as gzipped PostScript)

WFCAM Science Archive paper presented at the SPIE meeting "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2004"; available as PDF and as gzipped PostScript

SPIE paper (August 2002) on WFCAM Science Archive presented by Andy Lawrence (click here for gzipped postscript)


Presentations

Archive update given to UKIDSS in April 2005, including description of access to commissioning data products in the newly available WFCAM Science Archive.


Other documents

WFCAM Observing Strategy: Some issues relevant to the WFCAM Science Archive (summary discussion document for the workshop meeting at Edinburgh, 12/13 June 2003; also available in PDF and as gzipped PostScript)

WFCAM Science Archive Usage

WFCAM Science Archive Software (WFCAM software CDR contribution by WFAU) (click here for gzipped postscript)

WFCAM Pipeline Design (WFCAM software CDR contribution by CASU)

Data Processing and Archiving (WFCAM project PDR contribution) (click here for gzipped postscript)


Relevant documents from the SuperCOSMOS Science Archive

SuperCOSMOS Science Archive paper presented at ADASS 2003 (also available in PDF and as gzipped PostScript)

20 queries for the SuperCOSMOS Science Archive (an SQL Server implementation of the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey database).

SuperCOSMOS Science Archive schema (SQL script file for creating the SuperCOSMOS Science Archive tables in SQL Server).


Documentation under development

End-to-end top level design

Data Flow Document (click here for gzipped PostScript)