Italian Centre for Astronomical Archive

The long-term goal of this project is to implement a new strategy for preserving and providing access to the Astrophysical data heritage. IA2 is an ambitious Italian Astrophysical research infrastructure project that aims at co-ordinating different national initiatives to improve the quality of astrophysical data services. It aims at co-ordinating these developments and facilitating access to this data for research purposes. The first working target, is the implementation of the TNG Long-Term Archive (LTA). Its feasibility was demonstrated by the LTA pilot project prototype, funded by CNAA in 2001 and completed successfully in July 2002. The implementation of the TNG archive implies: − interfacing with the Centro "Galileo Galilei" (CGG) for the acquisition of TNG data; − long-term storage of scientific, technical and auxiliary data from the TNG; − providing accessibility by the CGG staff and by the scientific community to original and derived data; − providing tools to support the life cycle of observing proposals. The second target of the proposal aims at ensuring harmonization with other projects related to archiving of data of astrophysical interest, with particular reference to projects involving the Italian astronomical community (LBT, VST, GSC-II, DPOSS, …), to the Italian Solar and Solar System Physics community (SOLAR, SOLRA, ARTHEMIS which form SOLARNET – a future node of EGSO) and to the national and international coordination efforts fostering the idea of a multiwavelength Virtual Astronomical Observatory, and the use of the archived data through the Italian Astronomical Grid.

本项目的长期目标是实施一种新的策略，以保护和提供对天体物理学遗产数据的访问。IA2是一项雄心勃勃的意大利天体物理学研究基础设施项目，旨在协调不同的国家倡议，以提升天体物理学数据服务质量。该项目旨在协调这些发展并促进该数据为研究目的的访问。首个工作目标是实施TNG长期档案（LTA）。其可行性通过2001年由CNAA资助的LTA试点项目原型得到证实，并于2002年7月成功完成。实施TNG档案意味着：与“伽利略·伽利莱”中心（CGG）接口以获取TNG数据；长期存储TNG的科学、技术和辅助数据；为CGG工作人员和科学界提供对原始数据和衍生数据的访问；提供工具以支持观测提案的生命周期。提案的第二个目标是确保与其他涉及天体物理学数据存档的相关项目实现协调一致，特别是涉及意大利天文学界（LBT、VST、GSC-II、DPOSS等）和意大利太阳及太阳系物理学界（SOLAR、SOLRA、ARTHEMIS，这些共同构成SOLARNET——EGSO的未来节点）以及促进多波段虚拟天文台理念的国家和国际协调努力的项目，以及通过意大利天文学网格使用存档数据。