Data Organization in the SDSS Data Release 1
Anil Thakar, Alexander S. Szalay, Jan Vandenberg, J. Gray, Alley Stoughton · ASPC · 2003
The first official public data release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (www.sdss.org) is scheduled for Spring 2003. Due to the unprecedented size and complexity of the data, we face unique challenges in organizing and distributing the data to a large user community. We discuss the data organization, the archive loading and backup strategy, and the data mining tools available to the publicand the astronomic al community, in the overall context of large databases and the VO.