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The BIMA Image Pipeline - ALMA-Related Documents

The BIMA Image Pipeline is being developed in coordination with the Altacama Millimeter Array (ALMA). The technological components of BIMA Image Pipeline are being created in a modular fashion to allow their use outside the BIMA consortium, especially for use with ALMA. The following documents are intended for use within the BIMA Image Pipeline development team at the University of Illinois and ALMA personnel. They are not to be distributed outside of this group.

Documents

Early design work:

The Evolution of a Networked Telescope
a talk presented at the August 1998 Quarterly Meeting of the National Laboratory for Advanced Network Research (NLANR).

First Development Workshop for the Next Generation Networked Radio Interferometer
a workshop to develop a design for a grid-based Networked Telescope.

The Design of the Networked Telescope
a detailed document describing the goals and architecture for a general, grid-based archive and pipeline processing system for interferometer telescopes.
BIP Design and Development

Outline of the BIMA Image Pipeline
an outline of the Pipeline in terms of development timeline, describing its form over four phases of development.

The BIMA Image Pipeline and Implications for a Common Pipeline Architecture
an overview of the BIMA Image Pipeline design as presented to the "Imaging Pipelines in Radio Astronomy" workshop, January 18-20, 2000.
Tools
Data Retrieval Tool (DaRT)
a Java application for retrieving multiple documents from the Web simultaneously. BIMA astronomers use this tool to download multiple datasets from the archive all at once through its flexible user interface.

XML Support
BIMAarch:
- BIMAarch DTD, version 1.0
- Simple example:
  Note: not up to data with v1.0
  An XML encoding of all metadata associated with one track: full.xml (View in browser).
  The same metadata within four cross-referencing files:
  
  project.xml (View in browser)
  experiments.xml (View in browser)
  trials.xml (View in browser)
  datasets.xml (View in browser)
- XSL example:
  Note: not up to data with v1.0
  - The XML file: tstprj.xml (View in browser)
  - The XSL file: bimaarch.xsl
  - The HTML version resulting from conversion using James Clark's XT package: tstprj.html
Access Control:
- Access Control DTD, version 0.1

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