NED

I have to apologize to my loyal reader, because he or she has been waiting for a post for days! But I spent the end of last week preparing for and attending a NASA Extragalactic Database (NED) Users Committee meeting, in which we advised NED on their near-term and long-term priorities. NED is a pretty unique service, because its data ingestion involves a great deal of human scientific judgement. This gives it a crucial role in diversifying the current initiatives for massive data analysis.