Not reaaly for this list but.... How will errata in the errata be
handled ?

Scott Hogsten

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Odd you should mention this... I've recently been swapping a few
> private e-mails about the possibility of making a uniform system
> for reporting errata in astronomical datasets. People are finding
> errors at an astonishing rate, but there's no system for folding
> the corrections back into catalogs.
>
> This is, incidentally, a Big Picture problem, not really a
> Guide one. It's too big (and too important) to be left to
individual
> software authors. There needs to be a way to log corrections in a
> form where anyone who wants to can make use of them... but I'll
> spare you the full soapbox speech!
>
> At present, there would be exactly one way to get rid of
> spurious B1.0 stars. Edit the file 'b10.dat' in a text editor,
> look for the line(s) in question, and delete them. Similarly,
> one can delete downloaded A2.0, UCAC2, GSC-2.2, and 2MASS
> stars by deleting lines in the files 'eso_a2.dat', 'u2.dat',
> 'gsc22.dat', and '2mass.dat'.
>
> Note that this is a graceless way of doing things. The edits
> you make represent valuable work; we ought to be accumulating them
> so everyone can benefit from them. But at least right now, that's
> not the way it works.
>
> -- Bill