Add section for Software related concepts, submitted by Alice Allen (ASCL) 5/23/2016

[katieefrey]

Software Package categories:

• Data reduction and analysis software
• Document preparation software
• Graphics, plotting, image display, visualization software
• Modeling and simulation software
• Math and statistics software
• Subroutine libraries
• Utility programs

Other categories:

• Astronomical databases
• Physical data and processes

[katieefrey]

Proposed hierarchy

Computational astronomy -->Astronomy software --> Educational software Computational astronomy -->Astronomy software --> Software documentation --> Software tutorials Computational astronomy -->Astronomy software --> Software licensing --> Open source license Computational astronomy -->Astronomy software --> Software licensing -->Closed source license Computational astronomy -->Astronomy software --> Software licensing --> License available on request Computational astronomy -->Astronomy software --> Software licensing --> Public domain Computational astronomy -->Astronomy software --> Software licensing --> Publicly available Computational astronomy -->Astronomy software --> Web services --> Virtual observatories Computational astronomy -->Astronomy software --> Web services --> World Wide Telescope Computational astronomy -->Astronomy software --> Web services Computational astronomy -->Astronomy software Computational astronomy --> Data analysis --> Data acquisition Computational astronomy --> Data analysis --> Data reduction Computational astronomy --> Data analysis --> Databases Computational astronomy --> Data analysis --> Modeling Computational astronomy --> Data analysis --> Visualization Computational astronomy --> Data analysis Computational astronomy

[katieefrey]

software has undergone additional workshopping with Chris Lintott (AAS) and Tom Robitaille (AAS)

software_v4.xlsx

[katieefrey]

v4 of branch accepted.

[katieefrey]

List of concepts added or affected by accepting this branch, to make searching for provenance easier in the future:

Affine invariant Astronomy software Cloud computing Computational astronomy Computational methods Data acquisitions Data analysis Data modeling Data reduction Data visualization Databases Distributed computing Educational software Gibbs Sampler GPU computing Importance sampling Interdisciplinary astronomy Magnetohydrodynamics simulations Markov chain Monte Carlo Metropolis-Hastings N-body simulations Nested sampling Open source software Private software Public domain software Publicly available software Radiative transfer simulations Simulations Software available on request Software documentation Software licensing Software tutorials Virtual observatories Web services