The Multimission Archive at STScI (MAST) is the primary repository and access point for data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and supports a variety of other astronomical data archives. The purpose of this survey is to gather information for the MAST Users Group, and to help us prioritize our plans for improving and expanding archive services at MAST. Please provide your input by answering the questions below. We also welcome general comments or suggestions, which may be entered in the text box at the end of the survey. We encourage you to leave your e-mail address there, so that we can get back to you on specific issues/suggestions, but this is optional. The results of last year's survey can be found here.
1. How often have you used MAST in the past 12 months (including GALEX, the Guide Star Catalog (GSC), the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), and the Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA) web interfaces)?
2. Which missions did you access? (check all that apply):
3. Which operating system do you primarily use for your work?
4. Which web browser do you primarily use to access MAST?
5. Please rank the fraction of your MAST usage that is related to the following activities:
6. Please select the description that best describes your experience with finding documentation within MAST.
7. Please select the description that best describes how useful you generally find MAST documentation.
8. GalexView is a tool that MAST introduced last year to browse and download public release GALEX data. Please select the description that best applies to you:
9. We have enhanced GalexView's capabilities since its introduction. Enhancements include target upload lists, filtering on selected targets (with histograms), downloads via a shopping cart, and upgraded presentation details (some of these were recommended by user comments in last year's survey). Please help us prioritize future developments by ranking the following items in terms of how useful they would be to you. Enter other suggestions, or any other related comments, in the box.
The Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA) provides another interface to Hubble data, including enhanced combined images, extracted grism spectra, source lists, and user-contributed products. Through the HLA interface, users can quickly find which HST data have been taken in a given region of the sky, select them through a graphic footprint or tabular interface, and visualize science-grade images and spectra right from their browsers.
10. Have you used (or do you plan to use) the HLA for the following purposes? Check all that apply.
11. Please rate the usefulness of the following HLA tools:
12. Please tell us about how valuable you would find each of these possible future HLA enhancements:
13. How can we do a better job of supporting your archive needs? Please suggest in the comment box other new features or improvements you would like to see. We also welcome your comments any time via e-mail to archive.stsci.edu
If you would like to make it possible for MAST staff to contact you in response to your comments or suggestions, please enter your email address here. This is entirely optional.
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