Welcome information about ADASS 2023.

ADASS provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software, and software systems employed in the acquisition, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of astronomical and planetary science data. An important element of the program is to foster communication between developers and users with a range of expertise in the production and use of software and systems. The program consists of invited talks, contributed oral and poster papers, tutorials, user group meetings, and special interest group meetings (collectively “Birds of a Feather” meetings). ADASS is known for its many fruitful community discussions during coffee breaks and after hours.

The FITS data standard has served astronomers well for four decades.
The original integer image format has been revised to support additional
pixel data types, to support world coordinates and other scientific
metadata, to include an integrated data compression framework, and to
support generalized binary tables, among other features.

Over the years, a variety of alternative scientific data standards have been
proposed. These usually reach only a limited audience specific to a particular
project or community. No other format has ever garnered the widespread
support of FITS.

We'll hear from several groups who are generating data and how they have
been using FITS standards and extending or creating standards for newer
projects. Are people talking across projects about new standards, even partial
ones? Have people published details of their standard formats? Where?