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<div><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class="">We are pleased to announce the first major release of the Australian Optical Data Centre (ODC), an AAL-funded project.</span><br class="">
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ODC is a collaboration between Data Central and SkyMapper to produce a single entity that provides access to optical and infrared data of national significance. You can currently read more about the Optical Data Centre here: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/R30KCnx1jnizQrVKC9pIfi?domain=docs.datacentral.org.au/" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">https://docs.datacentral.org.au/governance/optical-data-centre/overview/</a></div>
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This release is available on Data Central (as version 1.11) and can be found at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/DafDCoV1kpfMJ6mBuzeIat?domain=datacentral.org.au/" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">https://datacentral.org.au/</a></div>
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New services and features include the following:</div>
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<li class="">A Simple Spectrum Viewer embedded as part of the Single Object Viewer <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xL0TCp81lrtGPpZvFYwNRH?domain=datacentral.org.au/" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">https://datacentral.org.au/services/sov/</a></li><li class="">An IVOA-compliant Simple Image Access service<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/c02oCq71mwfDGJvzUEaJjr?domain=datacentral.org.au/" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">https://datacentral.org.au/vo/sia2/</a> </li><li class="">The MARZ redshift and spectrum tool<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/owkuCr81nytpX4O1cjZdAX?domain=datacentral.org.au/" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">https://datacentral.org.au/marz/</a> </li><li class="">Private Team Data Access: request a new team via<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sW91Cvl1rKiGorZ2F54I26?domain=teams.datacentral.org.au/" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">https://teams.datacentral.org.au</a> </li></ul>
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<div class="">New data will follow shortly!</div>
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<div class="">Other features and services currently under active development include:</div>
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<li class="">An IVOA-compliant Simple Spectrum Access service</li><li class="">Lens proposal system integration into the Data Central ecosystem</li><li class="">Automated data reduction pipelines</li></ul>
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If there is feature that you’d like to see in the ODC, please submit a Feature request here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ao0sCzvkyVC3vOzxF7JoE-?domain=datacentral.org.au" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">https://datacentral.org.au/feature</a>;
new features will be discussed at the Science Advisory Committee meetings held six-monthly (see <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ysaCCxngwOfyKPj9hgRlLc?domain=docs.datacentral.org.au/" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">https://docs.datacentral.org.au/governance/science-advisory-committee/</a>).</div>
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<div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" class="">ODC received grant funding from the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), via Astronomy Australia Ltd (AAL).</div>
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