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6 Best Practices and Recommendations
6 Best Practices and Recommendations
Pages 34-38
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the existing science centers lack the capacity to support a major new scientific initiative and (2) there is an imminent need to develop an infrastructure to support a broad base of users.
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Recommendation 3. NASA should ensure that its astronomy science centers cooperate among themselves and with other agencies to develop strategies and plans for • Developing common protocols and formats for proposal entry; • Developing a universal infrastructure for data formats and metadata, archiving, and retrieval and analysis tools; and • Providing curriculum materials and professional development programs for K-12 teachers.
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• Provide functional software by the time data first arrive. Science Operations NASA astronomy science centers can best support their scientific user communities if they • Support robust, accessible, well-documented software.
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• Ensure that standards for access to all astronomical data archives are coordinated by an entity such as the National Virtual Observatory and that the infrastructure, including formats and analysis tools, is accessible and sustainable. Education and Public Outreach Science centers can best communicate their results to the public if they • Involve staff scientists and investigators in education and public outreach (EPO)
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