SDSS Science Archive Publications

sqlLoader preprint, "sqlLoader A Distributed Workflow System for Data Import, Validation, Publication and Curation", Thakar et al. (PDF)

ADASS 2003 (Strasbourg) abstracts (Proceedings will be posted soon)

sqlLoader ADASS Poster, "From FITS to SQL - Loading and Publishing the SDSS Data", Thakar et al. (PowerPoint)
(PDF version)

Migrating A Multiterabyte Archive from Object to Relational Databases (get PDF version below if you don't have CISE/IEEE account),
PDF version
MS Word version.
A. R. Thakar (JHU), A.S. Szalay (JHU), P.Z. Kunszt (CERN) and J. Gray (Microsoft Research)
in Computing in Science and Engineering (CISE) 2003 , vol.5, no.5, Sep/Oct 2003, pp. 16-29.
Test Queries for Benchmarks quoted in CISE article
MS Word version of Test Queries.

Data Mining the SDSS SkyServer Database (PDF)
MS Word version.
J. Gray, A.S. Szalay, A. Thakar, P. Kunszt, C. Stoughton, D. Slutz, J. vandenBerg
in Distributed Data & Structures 4: Records of the 4th International Meeting, W. Litwin, G. Levy (eds), Paris France March 2002, Carleton Scientific 2003, ISBN 1-894145-13-5, pp 189-210.

Online Scientific Data Curation, Publication, and Archiving (PDF)
MS Word version.
J. Gray, A.S. Szalay, A. R. Thakar, C. Stoughton, J. vandenBerg
in SPIE Astronomy Telescopes and Instruments, 22-28 August 2002, Waikoloa, Hawaii.

The SDSS SkyServer - Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Server Data (PDF)
A. Szalay, J. Gray, A. Thakar, P. Kuntz, T. Malik, J. Raddick, C. Stoughton. J. Vandenberg
in ACM SIGMOD 2002.

Case Study of Handling Scientific Queries on Very Large Datasets: The SDSS Science Archive (Postscript)
A. R. Thakar, P. Z. Kunszt, A. S. Szalay
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
in Mining the Sky: Proc. of the MPA/ESO/MPE workshop, Garching, A.J.Banday, S. Zaroubi, M. Bartelmann (ed.); (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg), 624-630. (2001).

The Hierarchical Triangular Mesh (Gzipped Postscript)
P. Z. Kunszt, A. S. Szalay, A. R. Thakar
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
in Mining the Sky: Proc. of the MPA/ESO/MPE workshop, Garching, A.J.Banday, S. Zaroubi, M. Bartelmann (ed.); (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg), 631-637 (2001).

Designing and Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (PDF)
A. Szalay, J. Gray, P. Kunszt, A. Thakar, D.Slutz, R.Brunner
in Proc. ACM SIGMOD, June 2000, pp. 451-462.

Multi-threaded Query Agent and Engine for a Very Large Astronomical Database (Postscript)
A. R. Thakar, P. Z. Kunszt, A. S. Szalay, G.P. Szokoly
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
in Proc ADASS IX, eds. N. Manset, C. Veillet, D. Crabtree, (ASP Conference series), 216, 231 (2000).

The Indexing of the SDSS Science Archive (Postscript)
P. Z. Kunszt, A. S. Szalay, I. Csabai, A. R. Thakar
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
in Proc ADASS IX, eds. N. Manset, C. Veillet, D. Crabtree, (ASP Conference series), 216, 141 (2000).

Ani R. Thakar,
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