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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><strong class="">Are you looking for a place to store your survey data? Do you want your data to be available through the Virtual Observatory?</strong></div>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Then apply to store your data with Data Central!</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Simply send the following information to <a class="external-link" href="mailto:datasets@datacentral.org.au" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 82, 204); text-decoration: var(--aui-link-decoration);">datasets@datacentral.org.au</a>:</p>
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<li class="">Your survey name;</li><li class="">Which facility or facilities were used to obtain or create the data;</li><li class="">Two short paragraphs explaining the science behind the data and why you want to make it publicly available; and</li><li class="">The approximate volume of the data</li><li class="">The availability and timeline for the data (e.g. data in hand, data in final stages of QA, data reduction/analysis ongoing)</li><li class="">Contact details of the person who will be actively collating data and creating the necessary metadata</li></ol>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">This is a rolling application – there is no deadline. However if you have data, the sooner you get your application in, the sooner you can publish your data!</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">One of the key goals of Data Central is to note just save your data, but to make it Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (<a class="external-link" href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/rl4tC1WLPxcp3WM1WcL1crg?domain=go-fair.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 82, 204); text-decoration: var(--aui-link-decoration);">FAIR</a>).
We offer four key Virtual Observatory services that help with this: <a class="external-link" href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/lzSlC2xMQzik1ypvyc18uyQ?domain=docs.datacentral.org.au/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 82, 204); text-decoration: var(--aui-link-decoration);">the
Table Access Protocol or TAP</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Xq3iC3QNPBimqNpwNF2wI35?domain=docs.datacentral.org.au/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 82, 204); text-decoration: var(--aui-link-decoration);">the Simple Image
Access Protocol or SIA</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/THcEC4QOPEiJgkBykHWMXj_?domain=docs.datacentral.org.au/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 82, 204); text-decoration: var(--aui-link-decoration);">the Simple Spectrum
Access Protocol or SSA</a> and the Simple Cone Search service. We have developed the <a class="external-link" href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QiahC5QPXJi0ENZoNhxXU8V?domain=das.datacentral.org.au/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 82, 204); text-decoration: var(--aui-link-decoration);">Data Aggregation
Service</a> where you can find everything <span class="inline-comment-marker" data-ref="bd578fbb-b0ea-4a7e-b28a-88e9bee97143">you ever wanted to know</span> about your favourite objects. We also manage <a class="external-link" href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zY3fC6XQ4LfozwrEwhL-mON?domain=archives.datacentral.org.au/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 82, 204); text-decoration: var(--aui-link-decoration);">the
AAT archive at NCI</a> and our new <a class="external-link" href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/atMJC71R2NTml7Av7F0TGry?domain=beta.datacentral.org.au" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 82, 204); text-decoration: var(--aui-link-decoration);">Pipelines As a Web Service (PAWS)</a> for 2dF+AAOmega data. </p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Priority will be given to data sets in this order:</p>
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<li class="">Data obtained with ESO facilities or supporting these data (e.g. theory/simulation data)</li><li class="">Data that supports the <a class="external-link" href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sB8gC81V0PTj146l4tRJF_T?domain=science.org.au" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 82, 204); text-decoration: var(--aui-link-decoration);">Decadal
Plan for Australian Astronomy (2016-2025)</a></li><li class="">Data of international significance that would otherwise be lost</li><li class="">All other data</li></ol>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Applications will be considered by our <a class="external-link" href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ZOn0C91WPRTmQ7kv7FGFT3O?domain=docs.datacentral.org.au/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 82, 204); text-decoration: var(--aui-link-decoration);">Science
Advisory Committee</a> and a priority list will be drawn up for ingestion.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Please note that we have moved to an application model for hosting data, to allow us to better prioritise datasets of national and international significance.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">We look forward to hearing from you!</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Simon O'Toole</p>
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<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Data Central is funded to deliver the Optical
<span class="">Data Centre (ODC), which</span> is funded under the Astronomy National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Program via Astronomy Australia Ltd (AAL).</p>
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