Data Organization of the SDSS Data Release 1
- A.R. Thakar ,
- A.S. Szalay ,
- J. Vandenberg ,
- J. Gray ,
- C. Stoughton ,
- Jim Gray
Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII, ASP Conference Series |
The first official public data release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (www.sdss.org) is scheduled for Spring 2003. Due to the unprecedented size and complexity of the data, we face unique challenges in organizing and distributing the data to a large user community. We discuss the data organization, the archive loading and backup strategy, and the data mining tools available to the public and the astronomical community, in the overall context of large databases and the VO.