PacificVAST2019 收录论文5（Visual Informatics 特刊系列二）

PacificVis2019将于4月23-26日在泰国曼谷召开。此次的PacificVAST2019 收录了6篇文章，在Visual Informatics 2019年3月第一期上出版。

aflak: Visual Programming Environment Enabling End-to-End Provenance Management for the Analysis of Astronomical Datasets
aflak：一个在分析天文数据集时支持端到端起源管理的可视化编程环境
Malik Olivier Boussejra, Rikuo Uchiki, Yuriko Takeshima, Kazuya Matsubayashi,
Shunya Takekawa, Makoto Uemura, Issei Fujishiro

本文描述了一个可扩展的图形框架aflak，它能够为多光谱天文数据集的分析提供了可视和起源管理平台。 通过aflak的结点编辑器界面，天文学家可以对从公共天文数据库输入的可查询的数据集进行变换，然后将分析结果导出为FITS图像传输系统文件，可使输出数据的全部来源得以保存和便于检查，能为常见的天文分析软件所采用。 FITS是天文学中数据交换的标准。 把aflak的起源数据嵌入到FITS文件中，我们既能与现有软件互联互通，又可以完整地重现天文学家的发现过程。

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aflak: Visual Programming Environment Enabling End-to-End Provenance Management for the Analysis of Astronomical Datasets

Malik Olivier Boussejra, Rikuo Uchiki, Yuriko Takeshima, Kazuya Matsubayashi,
Shunya Takekawa, Makoto Uemura, Issei Fujishiro

Abstract: This paper describes an extendable graphical framework, aflak, which provides a visualization and provenance management environment for the analysis of multi-spectral astronomical datasets. Via its node editor interface, aflak allows the astronomer to compose transforms on input datasets queryable from public astronomical data repositories, then to export the results of the analysis as Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) files, in a manner such that the full provenance of the output data be preserved and reviewable, and that the exported file be usable by other common astronomical analysis software. FITS is the standard of data interchange in astronomy. By embedding aflak’s provenance data into FITS files, we both achieve interoperability with existing software and full reproducibility of the process by which astronomers make discoveries.

Keywords: Astronomy, Provenance, Visual Programming, Visualization

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468502X19300154
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