P2.10 Eduardo Balbinot (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen)
Theme: Open data access/provisioning
A catalogue of Galactic globular clusters
We present a new community driven catalogue of the global properties of globular clusters. The ultimate goal is to expand the popular Harris catalogue, including better referencing to original literature sources and uncertainties when available. This presents a great challenge since the data sources are incredibly heterogeneous. The data management is implemented through a Django application and an (REST) API is provided for easy access to the database via a Python module and a command line interface. We use AstroPy standard methods and units as often as possible, in order to comply with other community efforts. We discuss the future of this project and how we will proceed to allow users to add, edit, and help maintain this database.
