2016/11/11 by William O'Mullane, William O’Mullane, O'Mullane, William +9 · 1 voice
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Research Data Management Practices #Scientific Computing and Data Management #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1701.06484
4 pages 1 figure, ADASS XXVI Trieste Italy 2016
arxiv created 2016/11/11 · openalex publication_date 2016/11/11 · arxiv published 2016/11/11 · arxiv updated 2017/01/24 · openalex created_date 2017/02/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Often, perhaps not often enough, we choose Common Off the Shelf (COTS) software for integration in our systems. These range from repositories to databases and tools we use on a daily basis. It is very hard to assess the effectiveness of these choices. While none of us would consider a project specific word processing solution when LaTeX (or even Word) many will consider writing their own data management systems. We will look at some of the COTS we have used and attempt to explain how we came to the decision and if it was worth it.