Hi David,
I've had a look through the AstroGridII topic and just have one main
comment - when did images/spectra cease to be part of a "result".
For instance, wearing my old polarimetry hat, a list of polarization
vectors of some object is usually pretty meaningless without overlaying
them over images of various kinds (colour-colour, integrations of various
components of the polarization states, etc.). I'd expect that such visual
clues to further interpretation are generally needed for all resolved
studies.
Perhaps some more balance between this traditional area of our work and
the clearly "needs more work" area of tables is needed (unless you're
aware that is balance is being attended to somewhere else in the
proposal).
One minor point. I didn't see any mention of making the "classic"
applications available as web-services. So I presume this means that this
is hidden as a subtext to the ORAC-DR section?
And point of philosophy. The importance of such tools is just as great as
anything else phase II is likely to produce. Surely these will be the
means of access that astronomers expect to see, if there can be a mindset
transition from the Portal to the desktop these are the tools that will do
it.
Cheers,
Peter.
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