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Italian Centre for Astronomical Archive
IA2 is INAF's end-to-end e-infrastructure for the full lifecycle of observational and simulated astrophysical data, providing petabyte storage, proximate computing, Virtual Observatory publishing, analysis environments, and curation with DOI assignment.
About Italian Centre for Astronomical Archive
IA2 is INAF's end-to-end e-infrastructure, coordinated from Trieste Observatory, for managing the full lifecycle of observational and simulated astrophysical data. It works as an integrated system of hardware, software and domain expertise to lower technical barriers and apply FAIR principles. Research and mission teams use it for storage, in-place analysis, interoperable publishing and long-term curation.
Pricing is not clearly stated.
Key features
- Hierarchical petabyte storage with rapid disk access and automated magnetic-tape preservation
- Dedicated computing next to the data, including virtual machines, CPU/GPU nodes and Kubernetes clusters
- High-performance dataset transfer with GARR network and high-performance computing centres
- Italian Virtual Observatory node publishing data with IVOA metadata validation
- Semantic interoperability with TOPCAT and Aladin plus federation with ESA and NASA archives
- Interactive web-based discovery and processing environments such as YABI
- Federated authentication protecting proprietary-period data with automated open-data release
- DOI assignment, data management planning advice and institutional repository for TNG, LBT, Asiago, SKA and CTA
Best for: Astronomy research and mission teams, including principal investigators handling proprietary and open data.
Italian Centre for Astronomical Archive at a glance
- Official website
- ia2.inaf.it
- Category
- Research & Data › Open Data & Datasets
- Type
- Institution
- Platforms
- Web
- Details verified
- Oct 23, 2026 · Official source
- Language
- Italian
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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