Speaker
Description
Research in astronomy and astrophysics has over centuries made huge progress along the frontier of ever increasing observational capabilities, which supply a wealth of data spanning the electromagnetic spectrum and different messengers.
With this treasure drove of data sitting in archives and being continuously added to, questions remain on how to best ensure equal access for members of the global community, and the availability of data for an indefinite timeframe. This is made even more challenging by the
fact that some observational capabilities exist only in few places in the world, and that some astronomical events (well known historic examples would be Galactic supernovae) are so rare that they will not
repeat during a single human lifetime.
In this talk, I will give an overview on challenges connected to this situation, and on efforts to ensure lasting data availability and access. In addition, I aim to discuss the potential use cases for artificial intelligence in this context.