Target and (Astro-)WISE technologies - Data federations and its applications

TL;DR

This paper discusses the development and application of WISE data federation technology across various astronomical, medical, and business projects, emphasizing its versatility and lessons learned for future large-scale data handling.

Contribution

It introduces the WISE data federation technology, highlighting its successful deployment in multiple disciplines and its application to the Euclid satellite's Science Ground Segment.

Findings

Successful implementation in European astronomical surveys

Application to diverse fields like medicine and business

Lessons learned for large-scale data management

Abstract

After its first implementation in 2003 the Astro-WISE technology has been rolled out in several European countries and is used for the production of the KiDS survey data. In the multi-disciplinary Target initiative this technology, nicknamed WISE technology, has been further applied to a large number of projects. Here, we highlight the data handling of other astronomical applications, such as VLT-MUSE and LOFAR, together with some non-astronomical applications such as the medical projects Lifelines and GLIMPS, the MONK handwritten text recognition system, and business applications, by amongst others, the Target Holding. We describe some of the most important lessons learned and describe the application of the data-centric WISE type of approach to the Science Ground Segment of the Euclid satellite.