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  • Comment: Hi @Attipaci. Thank you for your comments. It would really help if we just had one or two sources that discuss, analyse, comment on the Library. Surely there has to be something in tech magazines, books, journals? Something that covers the Library in-depth maybe discussing its features and history. Qcne (talk) 22:05, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: From the author. Thanks for the feedback. I cut some bits, leaving only objective, factual, and independently verifiable statements. As far as I can tell every statement is sourced. If you still think that anything remaining is 'promotional' or unsourced, please note specifically so I can respond appropriately. I also welcome you to point me to a Wikipedia entry to another software library, which can serve as an example of what I should be aiming for. Thank you. User:Attipaci 13:21, 13 Sep 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: From the author. The notability issue remains an open one. I would like to note that the Wikipedia:Notability_(software) article applies specifically to apps and programs only, and the subject of this article is neither of those, and so the essay does not offer relevant guidance. There seems to be no specific guideline for establishing notability for software libraries, which are not apps or programs, but the building blocks thereof.
    I do think that one aspect of notability that ought to be specific to software libraries is that if a software library is used by one or more apps/programs, which themselves are notable, then the library itself should be considered notable by extension. Those 'notable' apps/programs would not exist in their form without the software libraries they incorporate...
    For example, if Wikipedia has an article on "Apple Pie", which uses apples as their essential ingredient, then it's natural that you should have an article on "Apple (fruit)" also. Without it, "Apple Pie" cannot possibly be described completely.
    In the above sense the subject of this article is notable as it constitutes an essential part of several apps/programs, which themselves were deemed notable enough to have Wikipedia entries.
    Attipaci (talk) 09:45, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Still has promotional issues. Additionally, for the author, claiming that other articles are like it is null as just because many articles are promotional, doesn't mean that this one should. Also, some portions have no sources supporting them. OhHaiMark (talk) 18:58, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Wording like "full-featured, fast, 100% pure" is promotional. Ca talk to me! 10:54, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: From the author of the article to the reviewers: Thanks for your help and input in making this article better. In the name of fairness, I ask that you do not not hold this submission to a higher standard than the typical existing Wikipedia article in the same genre of Technical computing. Thank you in advance. User:Attipaci 18:06, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Almost all sources here document the fact that other software is built using this library. But I don't know that this is sufficient to establish notability. I'll leave that for other reviewers to assess. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 11:55, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Entire History section is unsourced. External links should be removed from body of article. ~Liancetalk 00:03, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: None of the sources in this draft represent independent coverage of the topic. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 20:01, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

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nom.tam.fits
Developer(s)Thomas A. McGlynn, Attila Kovács, Richard van Nieuwhoven, et al.
Initial release2008 July 11
Stable release
1.20.1 / 2024 September 1
Repositorygithub.com/nom-tam-fits/nom-tam-fits
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeTechnical computing
LicenseUnlicense
Websitenom-tam-fits.github.io/nom-tam-fits

nom.tam.fits is a free, open-source, Java library for reading, writing, and modifying FITS files..[1]. The library owes its origins to Thomas A. McGlynn (hence the nom.tam prefix) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center[2]. Currently, it is maintained by Attila Kovács at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian[1].

Using the library effectively requires[1] a level of familiarity with the FITS standards.[3][4] and conventions[5], such as the FITS world coordinate systems (WCS)[6][7][8], physical units, etc.

nom.tam.fits is a open-source, community maintained, project hosted on GitHub as nom-tam-fits/nom-tam-fits[1].

History

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The brief history of the library presented here is derived from (a) release notes and documentation published on the original HEASARCH home page[2] of the project; (b) the commit history, release notes, and other documentation, published in the GitHub repository[1]; (c) public[1] and private communications among the three lead maintainers who spearheaded the project at various stages of its existence.

The library was originally conceived and developed by Thomas A. McGlynn at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center[2]. It was originally written for Java 1.0, which influenced many of the original design choices that remain in place to this day. The first published version was version 0.92 (12 October 2000), and was followed by a series of development releases, up until 0.99.6 (4 December 2007)[2].

The library reached 'stable' status with the 1.0.0 release on 11 July 2008. Tom McGlynn remained the lead developer through version 1.12.0 (25 February 2015), occasionally integrating contributions from users, as attested by the release notes[2].

In 2015, Richard van Nieuwhoven took over as the lead maintainer. He contributed significantly to version 1.12.0, and then oversaw releases 1.13.0 (20 July 2016) through 1.15.2 (28 April 2017)[2][1] as Tom took on a less active advisory role in the project. Ritchie has been instrumental in adding the initial image and table compression support to the library, as well as modernizing the API to use Java 6 features, such as generic types and the java.nio package[1]. He also migrated the source code to GitHub (at version 1.12.0), set up continuous integration, added unit testing with nearly complete code coverage, set up a build system with Apache Maven, and began publishing GPG-signed release packages to both GitHub[1] and the Maven Central repository[9].

Since 2021, the lead maintainer has been Attila Kovács from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, overseeing releases starting from 1.16.0 (13 December 2021)[1]. Continuous integration was migrated from Travis CI to GitHub Actions, and the successive releases have fixed bugs, improved compliance to the FITS standard, and focused on documentation[1]. The language standard was bumped to Java 8 to utilize features, such as diamond operators, try-with-resources constructs, and default methods in interfaces[1].

At least 14 other developers (excluding bots) have contributed bits and pieces to the library since the project's presence on GitHub, based on the contributor statistics available in the GitHub repository[1].

Adoption

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At the time of writing this article, the GitHub project repository lists 80 other GitHub repositories for apps and programs that incorporate nom.tam.fits[10] for their functionality. A few more apps and programs are listed as dependents on Maven Central[9] also.

Some examples of software that rely on nom.tam.fits to handle FITS files (in no particular order):

  • Advanced Data mining And Machine learning System (ADAMS)[24] spectral base modules [25]
  • Spectral Line Identification and Modelling (SLIM)[26] component of the MADCUBA[27] software package for the analysis of astronomical data cubes.
  • Terran Interstellar Plotter System (TRIPS)[32], a stellar cartography system for stellar databases.
  • AstroToolBox[33] for visualizing, identifying, and classifying astronomical objects.
  • Control and Data Handling (CDH) component for the SOFIA/HAWC+[30] camera.

Releases

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Early releases, and related documentation, for versions 0.92 through 1.15.1 are available at the original HEASARCH site[2]

Since version 1.12.0 (21 February 2015) releases are available on the GitHub repository[1], and are published to the Maven Central Repository[9] also.

New versions of the library are released on a predictable quarterly schedule, around the 15th of March, June, September, and/or December[1]. In the weeks and month(s) leading up to releases, a number of release candidates are published briefly on the GitHub project site[1] to allow sufficient testing of the fixes and new features.

Redistribution

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The nom.tam.fits library is also redistributed as the libfits-java package[35] for Debian Linux, and as the nom-tam-fits RPM package[36] by Fedora Linux.

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "nom.tam.fits GitHub repository". github.com/nom-tam-fits/nom-tam-fits.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Index of /Docs/Heasarc/Fits/Java".
  3. ^ IAU FITS working group (2018-08-13) [2016-07-22]. "Definition of the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)".
  4. ^ Pence, W.D.; Chiappetti, L.; Page, C.G.; et al. (2010). "Definition of the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS), version 3.0". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 524: A42. Bibcode:2010A&A...524A..42P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201015362.
  5. ^ IAU FITS working group (2023). "The Registry of FITS Conventions".
  6. ^ Greisen, E.W.; Calabretta, M.R. (2002). "Representations of world coordinates in FITS". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 395 (3): 1061–1075. arXiv:astro-ph/0207407. Bibcode:2002A&A...395.1061G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20021326.
  7. ^ Greisen, E.W.; Calabretta, M.R. (2002). "Representations of celestial coordinates in FITS". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 395 (3): 1077–1122. arXiv:astro-ph/0207413. Bibcode:2002A&A...395.1077C. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20021327.
  8. ^ Greisen, E.W.; Calabretta, M.R.; Valdes, F.G.; et al. (2006). "Representations of spectral coordinates in FITS". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 446 (2): 747–771. arXiv:astro-ph/0507293. Bibcode:2006A&A...446..747G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20053818.
  9. ^ a b c ""nom-tam-fits on Maven Central"".
  10. ^ "Network Dependents · nom-tam-fits/Nom-tam-fits". GitHub.
  11. ^ "PDS Transform Tool". GitHub.
  12. ^ "PDSView". GitHub.
  13. ^ "PDS4 JParser".
  14. ^ "Interoperable Remote Component (IRC)".
  15. ^ a b Dowell, C. D.; Allen, C. A.; Babu, R. S.; et al. (2003). Phillips, Thomas G.; Zmuidzinas, Jonas (eds.). "SHARC II: a Caltech submillimeter observatory facility camera with 384 pixels". Proc. SPIE. Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy. 4855: 73. Bibcode:2003SPIE.4855...73D. doi:10.1117/12.459360.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Staguhn, Johannes G.; Allen, Christine; Benford, Dominic J.; et al. (2008). "GISMO, a 2 mm Bolometer Camera Optimized for the Study of High Redshift Galaxies". Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 151 (3–4): 709–714. Bibcode:2008JLTP..151..709S. doi:10.1007/s10909-008-9733-6.
  17. ^ Taylor, M.B. (2005). "TOPCAT & STIL: Starlink Table/VOTable Processing Software". Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIV. ASP Conference Series. Vol. 347. p. 29.
  18. ^ King, Gary (2007). "An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing". Sociological Methods and Research. 36 (2): 173–199. doi:10.1177/0049124107306660.
  19. ^ "IVOA Data Access Layer". GitHub.
  20. ^ "IVOA Data Access Layer / cadc-data-ops-fits module". GitHub.
  21. ^ "IVOA FITS package".
  22. ^ Collins, Karen A.; Kielkopf, John F.; Stassun, Keivan G.; et al. (2017). "AstroImageJ: Image Processing and Photometric Extraction for Ultra-Precise Astronomical Light Curves". The Astronomical Journal. 153 (2): 77. arXiv:1701.04817. Bibcode:2017AJ....153...77C. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/153/2/77.
  23. ^ "AstroImageJ".
  24. ^ Reutemann, Peter; Vanschoren, Joaquin (2012). "Scientific Workflow Management with ADAMS". Proceedings of the Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7524. pp. 833–837.
  25. ^ "ADAMS Spectral Base Modules". GitHub.
  26. ^ Martín, S.; Martín-Pintado, J.; Blanco-Sánchez, C.; et al. (2019). "Spectral Line Identification and Modelling (SLIM) in the MAdrid Data CUBe Analysis (MADCUBA) package". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 631: A159. arXiv:1909.02147. Bibcode:2019A&A...631A.159M. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936144.
  27. ^ "MAdrid Data CUBe Analysis (MADCUBA)".
  28. ^ Kovács, A. (2008). Duncan, William D.; Holland, Wayne S.; Withington, Stafford; Zmuidzinas, Jonas (eds.). "CRUSH: a fast and scalable data reduction for imaging arrays". Proc. SPIE. Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 7020: 45. arXiv:0805.3928. Bibcode:2008SPIE.7020E..1SK. doi:10.1117/12.790276.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  29. ^ "CRUSH: Comprehensive Reduction Utility for SHARC-II".
  30. ^ a b Harper, Doyal A.; Runyan, Marcus C.; Dowell, C. Darren; et al. (2018). "HAWC+, the Far-Infrared Camera and Polarimeter for SOFIA". Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. 07 (4): 1840008–1841025. Bibcode:2018JAI.....740008H. doi:10.1142/S2251171718400081.
  31. ^ "attipaci/jnum". GitHub.
  32. ^ "Terran Interstella Plotter System (TRIPS)". GitHub.
  33. ^ Kiwy, Frank (2022). "AstroToolBox: Java tools for identifying and classifying astronomical objects". ascl.net/2201.002.
  34. ^ Albi, Tomás Alonso (2018). "JPARSEC: a Java package for astronomy with twelve years of development and use". arXiv:1806.03088 [astro-ph.IM].{{cite arXiv}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  35. ^ "Debian libfits-java package".
  36. ^ "Fedora Linux nom-tam-fits RPM package".
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