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Giving Away the Data, Jim Bell talks about the decision to publish images as they arrive |
 Aug 28 2006, 05:11 PM
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Giving Away the Data
QUOTE Remembering my Voyager experience, I had a talk one day with rover science team leader and Cornell colleague Steve Squyres about the whole issue of "sharing the data." I had strong opinions about what we should do with the Pancam images, and I was bracing for a possible fight with Steve about my proposal. However, Steve told me that he had had a somewhat similar experience to mine on a different mission early in his career, and it had left him with a similar bad aftertaste. It turned out we were on the same page. We both wanted to give all the images away, sharing them in as close to "real time" as we possibly could. No restrictions, embargoes, or proprietary data periods. Happily, most of the rest of the rover science team felt similarly. Just imagine how boring this forum would be if they hadn't done that. |
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Aug 28 2006, 10:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
QUOTE (ToSeek @ Aug 28 2006, 05:11 PM)  Giving Away the Data Just imagine how boring this forum would be if they hadn't done that. It was a great article would there even have been a forum without this policy? |
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Aug 28 2006, 10:27 PM
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QUOTE (mars loon @ Aug 28 2006, 11:12 PM) would there even have been a forum without this policy? Nope. Very very unlikely. I can't imagine ever starting this place without that decision to put the images online being made. Go look at the really early threads - the very genesis of this forum was somewhere for me to put my early colour images and mosaics. Topic 3 ( the first actual content topic ) was a colour image I did from the raw data http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3 
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Aug 28 2006, 11:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 28 2006, 10:27 PM) Nope. Very very unlikely. I can't imagine ever starting this place without that decision to put the images online being made. Go look at the really early threads - the very genesis of this forum was somewhere for me to put my early colour images and mosaics. Topic 3 ( the first actual content topic ) was a colour image I did from the raw data http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3 That is exactly what I thought. thanks for the confirmation. I will be sure to mention that to Jim at the appropriate time. |
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ToSeek Giving Away the Data Aug 28 2006, 05:11 PM
DonPMitchell A good article. I hope our friends at the ESA wil... Aug 28 2006, 08:37 PM djellison Occasionally you get some obs getting put through ... Aug 28 2006, 10:01 PM |
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