Platforms & Tools – Research Data & Software

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We build tools, apps, pipelines and platforms to enable scientific research.

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Data Central

We serve team-curated data products and documentation alongside federated data from remote data portals, providing access for novice astronomers, expert survey-team members, and members of the public alike.

Data Central

Data Central brings together an array of heterogenous astronomical data in one accessible, feature-rich data portal, maximising the scientific return on Australian optical datasets of national significance.

Data Central API

The Data Central API provides a simple RESTful interface with lightweight JSON-formatted responses to power Data Central's many features, including queries, data retrieval, feature requests, profile management, authentication and support.

Data Central VO Tools

The Virtual Observatory (VO) is the vision that astronomical datasets and other resources should work as a seamless whole.

TAP
SSA
SIA2
SCS

Docs

Find information, examples, FAQs and extensive descriptions of the data, curated by the survey teams.

Data Central Auxiliary Data Access Tools

Access tools developed by our software team and integrated to the Data Central Ecosystem.

Smart Pulsar
SimSpin
CosmoDragon
GLEAM/GLEAM-X R-shiny app
Hector target selector
4HS data quality visualisation
Jupyter Notebooks

AAT Archive

The AAT Archive is an ongoing service to provide online access to the data observed to-date on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (archives for the TAIPAN instrument on UK Schmidt telescope and the Huntsman telescope are in-progress). Includes Pipelines as A Web Service (PAWS).

David Malin Images

A unique archive of wide-field astronomical photographs, mostly made with the telescopes of the Australian Astronomical Observatory.

DC-Teams

Data Central’s Team Management platform is designed to facilitate and support research teams throughout the whole project lifecycle, from the initial discussion-over-coffee concept to the final publication.

Team Management

Manage users' membership and access across all Data Central services.

Wiki

The knowledge base for your research team.

Docs

Publish public-facing documentation to describe your data.

Messages

Real-time chat across your distributed team with integrated LaTeX support.

Cloud

Access the cloud space; fast, secure file sharing with in-built data recovery.

Lens

Access the telescope proposal system.