SkyMapper, Australia’s first new optical research telescope for 25 years, and the first to conduct a comprehensive digital map survey of the southern skies, was officially launched today at the Siding Spring Observatory facility of The Australian National University. ...
SkyMapper is a state of the art telescope which has been custom built to undertake the Southern Sky Survey – the first ever systematic digital map of the southern skies. Over the next five years the telescope will take detailed pictures of the entirety of the southern sky. In the process it will produce 400 Terabytes of data – equivalent to 100,000 DVDs – and that data set will be freely available to astronomers via the Internet. ...
From the project site:
... The data taken by the SkyMapper telescope will be shared with astronomers around the world via the Virtual Observatory initiative, so that every possible use can be made of this resource. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 6/15/2009 12:02:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
