Some of us are working on a paper for Astronomy & Computing detailing how a future astronomical data format could learn from FITS.

A draft PDF is available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bydi4JsSwrczN19BbHA0Ulg4Tkk/edit?usp=sharing

and the source is also on github at https://github.com/timj/aandc-fits

We are moving towards a final draft but there is still scope for people to sign up to the paper. We don't require anything from you other than the support of your name and you reading the paper and wanting to be on it. Deadline for accepting new authors is December 13th.

I am also working on an equivalent paper on NDF.

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Tim Jenness