NEVEC, in the
persons of Jaffe and Cotton, has played a leading role in establishing FITS
Binary Table formats for storing optical/IR interferometric data. The goal was
to establish formats for both the instrumental configurations and the data in
various stages of reduction. A generic format for "all" optical interferometers
was developed along with specialization's for the VLTI and two specific instruments:
MIDI and VINCI. The VLTI version has been transferred to ESO for maintenance.
In addition to establish the standards, Jaffe and Cotton have developed software,
in IDL and C respectively, to access and manipulate data in these formats.