How will astronomy archives survive the data Tsunami?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 52-56

  Berriman, G Bruce ^a   Groom, Steven L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHIVED DATA; DATA SIZE; NEW PROJECTS; PUBLIC DATA;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 82155185679     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2043174.2043190     Document Type: Article

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