Overview

The user can upload individual OIFITS files and create a collection of their granules.

Data extraction

The user provides either URL to OIFITS file hosted on a public Web server or upload files.

Data mapping

Granules are extracted from OIFITS files by OIFitsViewer and completed by data from the collection they are to be associated with.

If a collection is created

• the granule is associated with a collection named after the catalog designation (obs_collection)
• the calibration level is set the to 3 (calib_level)
• the creator name (obs_creator_name) is set with the name of the first author from the catalog description
• the release date (obs_release_date) is set to the last modification date of the catalog (last line in the catalog description)
• the bibliographic reference (bib_reference) is set to the bibcode of the first paper in the catalog description

A collection with an id equal to the catalog designation is created. Its contents is:

• the name is the catalog designation
• the title is the catalog title from the first line of the catalog description
• the description is the catalog abstract
• the date the catalog was last modified
• the description of any article associated with the catalog (bibcode, title, authors and keywords)

Usage

From the OiDB Submit new data, the user chooses the calibration level of the data to process: L2 for calibrated data and L3 for calibrated and published data.

The form and validation rules change with the calibration level.

Calibration level 2:

• creation of a collection is optional.
• the collection has no associated article.
• the user can attach a set of up to 6 keywords to the collection.

Calibration level 3:

• creation of a collection is mandatory (TODO).
• the user has to provide at least one reference to an article through its bibcode (the abstract of the article may or may not be available at ADS).
• the keywords of the collection are taken from the keywords of the article abstract.

Any collection must have at least a name and a title.

The user can add individual OIFITS files:

• the file are either downloaded from a public Web server
• or from a local file that is uploaded to the service

Uploaded files are saved in a staging area within OiDB.

If the user requested the creation of a collection, a new XML collection document is build with the data from the upper form and uploaded to the server.

Notes

The uploaded files are stored on the OiDB server in a staging area.

The validation of target, instrument and instrument mode is not enforced.