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Peter Teuben
Astronomy Department, University of Maryland, College Park
Don Wells
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville
This year marked the second FITS BoF at the ADASS. In previous years
the WGAS meetings at the AAS Summer meetings provided a regular
discussion ground, but with the introduction of the BoF sessions at
the ADASS and a much more targeted audience, it was decided to hold
these meetings at the annual ADASS. Most FITS-related communications
take place on the newsgroup sci.astro.fits (and the associated
`` fitsbits'' e-mail
exploder).
As always, a number of oral and poster presentations specifically discussed FITS-related items. Oral papers by Clarke, Allen, Mink, Mandel, and Wells were presented in a special FITS afternoon session, and posters were presented by Pence, Farris, Tripicco, and Stobie; see the papers by these authors elsewhere in this volume.
The NOST/FITS Support Office is responsible for two major documents. First, the NOST standard is intended to define FITS in more precise terms. The technical panel met on September 11 and its chairman (Bob Hanisch) reported on some of the major changes which were decided. The new version of the standard is expected to be out for comments early in 1997. Second, the User's Guide provides background information, especially examples, to aid in producing and interpreting legal FITS datasets. Version 4 is now being prepared (also available early in 1997); the IMAGE, BINTABLE and blocking agreements are now part of the regular text. It now also includes discussion of the World Coordinates draft (Greisen & Calabretta 1995).
The FITS Support Office also maintains a Web site, which is one of the major information clearinghouses for FITS. It includes the registered FITS extension types. The home page is accessed about ten times a day, and the NOST standard and User's Guide are retrieved about once a day.
Grosbøl reported on a recent sci.astro.fits/ fitsbits discussion of the ``year-2000'' problem, which resulted in a proposal by the European FITS committee which will be discussed by other regional FITS committees and the IAU-FWG. One possible starting date for a new format for the DATE-OBS (and related) FITS keywords will be January 1, 1998.
Wells discussed the proposed MIME codes for FITS files. Efforts are still in progress to register several FITS data types with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA].
This past year has also seen some major and minor improvements in existing software, and the introduction of some new and interesting tools:
A new version of the World Coordinate System draft is available, and all FITS users are urged to study it. Hanisch and Tody discussed some of their concerns with the current WCS proposal during the BoF session. It became clear that some issues, particularly with respect to large scale astrometric projections and mosaicking, will need to be looked at in more detail.
[A report on the 1995 BoF was not included in the ADASS V volume.] From the FITS Support office, Schlesinger reported on the status of the NOST Standard and the Users Guide. Version 1.1 of the NOST Standard has now been approved by the Accreditation Panel (after some units revisions). The Technical Panel will start to work on Version 2, which will now include BINTABLE, IMAGE, and blocking. The FITS User's Guide is at version 3.1 with Version 4.1 under way. Schlesinger also presented an overview of the new Web site as a primary source of information for FITS and registration of FITS extension types.
Short contributions were presented by the following authors:
We would like to thank Barry Schlesinger (GSFC/ADF FITS Support Office) who could unfortunately not be present, for preparing his news items.
Greisen, E. W., & Calabretta, M. 1996, Representations of celestial coordinates in FITS
Cotton, W. D., Tody, D., & Pence, W. D. 1995, A&AS, 113, 159
Wells, D. 1997, this volume
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