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    User-contributed resources

    Date last updated: 23 Oct 2026 13:09 (MST)

    Users and third-party teams (non-staff) who develop tools, services, and derived data products can opt to share them benefit of the broader Rubin community.

    LINCC Frameworks

    The LINCC Frameworks project develops state-of-the-art analysis techniques capable of meeting the scale and complexity demanded by Rubin's LSST datasets. Their software packages are openly available and can be found listed on the LINCC Frameworks Software Tools webpage.

    Host platforms for contributed resources

    Rubin Science Platform

    In cases where these user-generated software or datasets cannot be hosted by their developers, or have a broad usefulness and scientific impact to the Rubin science community, they might be hosted within the Rubin Science Platform. Guidelines for the eligibility and approval process (primarily for tools and services, but datasets are also discussed) are described in RTN-105: Contributing capabilities to the Rubin Science Platform. In the case of large datasets, storage space in excess of what the capabilities for individual user accounts to share files provides can be submitted to the twice-annual call for proposals for Rubin compute resources.

    How to find contributed data products: The user-generated data products for a given data release are always listed on the "Data products" page in that data release's technical documentation. Go to the list of recent data releases for links to the technical documentation.

    Independent Data Access Centers (IDACs)

    Some resources will be made available via Independent Data Access Centers (IDACs) via the In-Kind Program Contributions.

    GitHub

    User-generated resources can be hosted on institutional servers or on platforms such as GitHub (e.g., git-lfs).

    How to advertise shared contributions

    • Publish a journal article to demonstrate the utility of the software or dataset.
    • Advertise it in the "Science - Announcements" category of the Rubin Community Forum.
    • Volunteer to give a talk in a Rubin Science Assembly.
    • If the contribution includes tutorials, request their addition to the Tutorials page.

    Rubin Community Forum

    Ask questions, get help, report bugs or errors, and join in discussions about Rubin Observatory and its data products, pipelines, and services.

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