ANNOUNCEMENT: START OF FORMAL PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD This is to announce the official start of the 4-week formal Public Comment Period on the 3rd in a series...

Doug Tody wrote (06-04-2007) regarding INHERIT: I agree with Steve that this is a simple example of a broader problem of associating relational entities. ...

Steve Allen wrote: My initial impression was that the Hierarchical Grouping Convention (HGC) was initially a way of handling interconversions between...

Perhaps this EXTTYPE convention should be written up and submitted to the Registry of conventions. Even though this convention only defines a single new...

This is a brief reminder about the FITS conventions that are currently being considered for the Registry of FITS Conventions (see...

Mike Nolan a écrit : We're trying to data formats a new spectral instrument. It will produce binary tables in a vaguely SDFITS-like format, with a table...

This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the 'Multi-Beam FITS (MBFITS)' FITS convention that has been submitted for inclusion in...

This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the CHECKSUM FITS keyword convention that has been submitted for inclusion in the...

This is a brief reminder about the FITS conventions that are currently being considered for the Registry of FITS Conventions...

Rob Seaman wrote: Some might suggest that with the abundance of low cost disk space that is now available, the inherit convention is trying to fix a...

This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the 'INHERIT' FITS convention that has been submitted by the Nelson Zarate and Perry...

We should perhaps consider adding a short section to the FITS Standard to clarify the status of long (64-bit) integer support in FITS for the benefit of users....

This is a reminder that 2 FITS proposals are currently in the "Public Comment Period" stage of their respective formal approval cycles: 1. WCS Paper III,...

Minutes of the ADASS FITS Birds-of-a-Feather Session ---------------------------------------------------- The FITS Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session, held each...

In response to the comments received so far during the official Public Comment Period on the proposals to incorporate the TDIMn and variable length array...

The following comments about the FITS binary table proposals from Arnold Rots and Preben Grosbol may be of general interest, so I'm reposting this here to the...

The IAU FITS Working Group will be meeting at the IAU General Assembly in Prague on Thursday 17 August from 9:00am - 10:30am in the Prague Congress Centre. ...

This is to announce the start of the 30-day public comment period on the "Tiled Image Compression" FITS convention that has been submitted for inclusion in...

This is a reminder that the public comment period on the "Tiled Image Compression" FITS convention will officially end next Friday, Feb 23. William Pence...

Rob Seaman wrote: If we really want to extend FITS to allow longer keyword names, then I think a much simpler way to do this is to just allow...