Learn how to submit an HLSP collection to MAST |
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Hosting HLSP collections is a collaborative effort between the contributing science team and MAST staff. For carefully prepared data collections, contributing the ensemble to MAST is straightforward. Just follow these steps:
Details of the process for publishing an HLSP collection, along with an approximate timeline, are described in the article Publication Timeline.
MAST staff will gladly help you formulate and prepare your HLSP collection. It is best to contact MAST as soon as possible if you think you want to contribute a science product collection. This will provide time to work with MAST staff to understand and comply with the contribution requirements, as well as time to prepare your collection for publication when your descriptive paper is accepted for publication. Many HLSP collections are added each year. If you wish to offer an HLSP collection to MAST, please contact MAST via email or the submission form at least 6 weeks in advance of the date you wish for the collection to be available in MAST. |
Please follow these instructions after you have worked with MAST staff to setup your upload directory.
You can use curl and the FTPS protocol to upload files to the MAST archive, as shown in the example below:
curl --ssl-reqd -u USERNAME -T 'hlsp_{dogs.txt,cats.fits,birds-and-worms.fits}' ftp://archive.stsci.edu/pub/MY_DIR/ |
Note the following:
Another option is to use an FTP Client, such as Cybderduck or Filezilla.
To download the app or for more help, please see the Cyberduck site. Launch the app and select Open Connection.
You will see two folders: "pub" and "stage":
Under "stage", navigate to the directory specified by MAST staff. Under 'Action' on the menu bar, select upload, then select your files. |
A small set of tools is being developed to help contributors prepare and verify their collection contents. Until they are available, contributors may benefit from FITS tools in the astropy package, as well as the fitsverify tool from HEASARC, to validate FITS files against the v4.0 Standard.
Depending upon the project, data may be delivered in stages, or re-delivered if, for instance:
If you find that your HLSP data products or documentation need to be revised or supplemented, please contact MAST staff at mast_contrib@stsci.edu. It is not necessary to fill out a new request form.
Although MAST can discover literature references to papers related to HLSP products, it is helpful for the HLSP originators to provide updates to the list of refereed papers as they become available. Please email links to these papers to mast_contrib@stsci.edu.