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SUMMARY:Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
 Speaker: James Guillochon\n
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 Speaker's Institution: 
 Harvard\n
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 Seminar Title: Title: Open Catalogs 
 for Astronomical Data\n
 The Open Supernova 
 Catalog is a new webpage with a collection 
 of published observations and\n
 metadata for 
 presently 36,000+ supernovae (SNe) and SNe 
 candidates. The catalog is freely\n
 available 
 on the web (http://sne.space), with its main 
 interface having been designed to be a userfriendly,\n
 rapidly-searchable 
 table accessible 
 on desktop and mobile devices. In addition to 
 the\n
 primary table which contains SNe metadata, 
 an individual page is generated for each 
 SN which\n
 displays its metadata, light curves, 
 and spectra. The data presented in the catalog 
 is automatically\n
 rebuilt on a daily basis 
 and is constructed by parsing several dozen 
 sources, including the data\n
 presented in the 
 supernova literature, i.e. "primary" sources, 
 and from "secondary" sources such\n
 as other 
 web-based catalogs. Individual SN data is stored 
 in the hierarchical, human- and\n
 machine-readable 
 JSON format, with the entirety of 
 each SN's data being contained within a\n
 single 
 JSON file bearing its name. The setup I'll 
 present, which is based upon open source\n
 software 
 maintained via git repositories hosted 
 on GitHub, enables anyone to download the\n
 entirety 
 of the supernova dataset to their home 
 computer in minutes, and to easily make\n
 contributions 
 of their own data back to the catalog. 
 I'll describe how the catalog framework 
 we\n
 have developed will be an important pillar 
 for supporting upcoming transient surveys.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: https://www.pa.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Shawna Prater\n
 Contact email: prater@pa.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://www.pa.msu.edu/seminars/ast_seminars/current\n
LOCATION: Room 1400 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building
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