| 1 | 'New Data Provider Questionaire' |
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| 3 | Please see NewDataProvider for more information about becoming a VSO Data Provider, and what to do with this questionaire once you have filled it out, or for information about assistance in filling it out. |
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| 7 | 1. Under what name is your organization commonly refered to? |
| 8 | |
| 9 | 2. Is there is a standard abbreviation or acronym for your organization? |
| 10 | |
| 11 | 3. What data sets are you sharing? |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Please describe each data set in terms of: |
| 14 | |
| 15 | a. Instrument & Detector |
| 16 | |
| 17 | i. Observatory Name |
| 18 | |
| 19 | ii. Observatory Abbreviation |
| 20 | |
| 21 | iii. Instrument Name |
| 22 | |
| 23 | iv. Instrument Abbreviation |
| 24 | |
| 25 | v. Detector or other Sub-instrument Name |
| 26 | |
| 27 | vi. Detector Abbreviation |
| 28 | |
| 29 | b. Physical Observable * |
| 30 | (see http://vso.stanford.edu/datamodel/v18.html#obsrvbl ) |
| 31 | |
| 32 | c. Time range |
| 33 | |
| 34 | i. earliest record |
| 35 | |
| 36 | ii. most recent record, if not actively adding info |
| 37 | |
| 38 | d. Observed region |
| 39 | (full disk, solar limb, corona, etc.) |
| 40 | |
| 41 | e. Spectral Range |
| 42 | (if applicable) |
| 43 | |
| 44 | 4. How is the data being made available? |
| 45 | |
| 46 | a. Request mechanism (direct URL, email, web-based form, etc) |
| 47 | |
| 48 | b. Packaging (FITS, CDF, JPG) |
| 49 | |
| 50 | c. Delivery Protocol (HTTP, FTP, etc.) |
| 51 | |
| 52 | 5. If the data products aren't accessible directly, what is the standard turnaround between data request, and it becoming available? |
| 53 | |
| 54 | 6. If you have a catalog of metadata: |
| 55 | |
| 56 | a. Is it currently in a database? (if so, what vendor?) |
| 57 | |
| 58 | b. What metadata is available in the database? |
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| 60 | 7. If you don't have a catalog, please describe how the data is organized. |
| 61 | |
| 62 | 8. Is there anything else about the data that might be important for people to do science with it? |
| 63 | (calibration info, details about the file formatting, etc.) |