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Astronomical Data Format Use Case Wiki

Welcome to the astrodataformat paper wiki.

This wiki is for collecting astronomical data format use cases. Astronomical use cases are defined as any plausible use case which involves astronomical or related information being utilized/held within a data format.

Thank you for your contributions!

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Use Cases

Instructions

To enter a new use case, first click "New Page" and add in the following information:

1. Short title which should be "Use Case #" where # is the next available integer value.
2. Attribution at the top of the description to indicate one or more "owners" of the use case who can be asked about its contents.
3. Description of the use case in one or more sentences.

Then add the use case to this page at the bottom of the list. Please follow the format of Use Case 1 when entering new use cases.

If you want to edit or comment on someone else's use case please open an issue with the title "Use Case #: " and include the author so they are notified. This will also allow us to capture discussion about the change.

• Use Case 1: Standard data product capture

• Use Case 2: Data format serialization as file

• Use Case 3: Data format as an adapter/wrapper

• Use Case 4: Machine understanding of data format

• Use Case 5: Export to other common formats

• Use Case 6: Data format as generator of data

• Use Case 7: Filters for compression algorithms

• Use Case 8: Language support

• Use Case 9: Multi-extension data types

• Use Case 10: Support access to a subset of data

• Use Case 11: Making use of archived data

• Use Case 12: Making use of in-memory data within reduction pipelines

• Use Case 13: Basic access to serializations of data format

• Use Case 14: Representing Structured Metadata and Data

• Use Case 15: Standard In-data References

• Use Case 16: Time-Ordered Data

• Use Case 17: Parallel data analysis