Re: [alma-sw-ssr] Post-Berkeley draft of Offline Requirements

["K. Tatematsu" <k.tatematsu@nao.ac.jp>]

At 11:08 01/08/13 -0600, Steven T. Myers wrote:
>This requirement has been updated to more or less what you suggested in
>the latest version 3.1 (08Aug01) as OL-7.1-R5.1 for at least one standard
>format (I chose fits but could be something else) at Pri 1 and R5.2 for
>other formats at Priority 3.

# My bounced mail was sent just before version 3.1. Sorry about that.

>FITS works as an image format (the "I" part originally meant image I
>believe) and is supported by a number of viewers (e.g. xv).

Dear Steve, and all,

A late comment.
Isn't it good to produce one (or a few) in very popular format(s),
for which almost the all converter can read? Then we can convert in
a black-box way or manually to various formats at once.
If it is not popular enough, we will need two or more converters
to reach the destination format.
I am not sure whether FITS is one of the bests
for this purpose (priority-1 to hardcopy the display), although it is very 
useful to
contain astronomical (n-dimensional or more) data.

Off course, we definitely need FITS.  We may need to change the contour level
or coloring later. But, it is not just to hardcopy the display.

Ken Tatematsu
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