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November 2011</span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-GB">I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
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mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-US">mportant astronomy data archive mirrored in Africa for
the first time</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-GB">The South African
Virtual Observatory (SAVO) on behalf of the South African Astronomical
Observatory (SAAO) and the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) is
pleased to announce the release of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
(SAO)/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) mirror in Cape Town, South Africa. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"DejaVu Sans"" lang="EN-GB">A<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><b>mirror site</b><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>is an exact copy of another, remote<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>web<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>site on the World Wide Web.</span><b><span style="font-family:
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Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-GB"> This is </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"DejaVu Sans"" lang="EN-GB">the
first mirror of this important astrophysics data archive in Africa</span><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></b></p>
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SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for
researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic
databases containing more than 9.2 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Physics, and arXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of
bibliographic records, that are searchable through highly customisable
web-based query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical
literature that can be browsed or searched via ADS full-text search interface.
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of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogues and other
archives.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This archive has been
mirrored at major data centres around the world, but this marks the first time
it has been deployed to Africa.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-hyphenate:
auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-hyphenate:
auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-GB">The URL for South
African ADS mirror is: </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://saaoads.chpc.ac.za/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"DejaVu Sans"">http://saaoads.chpc.ac.za/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-hyphenate:
auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica" lang="EN-GB">This
site is hosted by the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) on behalf of
the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) Virtual Observatory
initiative. This is the first of the major data archives that SAVO plans to
mirror at CHPC under their Data Intensive Research Infrastructure of South
Africa (DIRISA) and this effort was a vital step in the process of learning to
host<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>large data archives.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The two teams involved are from the CHPC: <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-GB">Happy
Sithole, Jeff Chen, Dorah Thobye Eric Mbele Sakhile Masoka and </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">Meshack Ndala</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-GB"> and from the </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica" lang="EN-GB">SAAO: Sudhanshu Barway, Steve Crawford, Garith
Dugmore, Patricia Whitelock and Phil Charles. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Edwin
Henneken</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica" lang="EN-GB"> and the
entire team from SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System at </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Harvard
- Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics are duly acknowledged for their support
in enabling this initiative. This mirror site provides improved access to the
scientific literature for all scientists including those elsewhere in Africa
are interested in Astronomy. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">We
encourage South African scientists to use this ADS mirror site and provide
their feedback, which will help us to actively maintain the site in
collaboration with CHPC.</span></p><p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in;
text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica" lang="EN-GB">**********************************************************ENDS*****************************************************************************************<br></span></p>
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auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-hyphenate:
auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"DejaVu Sans"" lang="EN-GB">For more details </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-GB">please email to Sudhanshu Barway at<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:barway@saao.ac.za" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"DejaVu Sans"">barway@saao.ac.za</span></a></span></p>
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<br><br><div><span></span>-- <br>Regards<br><br>Thembela Mantungwa<br>S.A. Astronomical Observatory<br>Tel: 021 460 9319<br>Fax: 086 612 7502<br>Mob: 071 105 0109<br>Email: tm@saao.ac.za<br>Website: www.saao.ac.za / www.salt.ac.za<br><span></span><br></div><br></div></body></html>