The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized space telescope with an aperture of at least $4m$. With the support of their governments in the US, Europe, and Canada, 20,000 people realized that vision as the $6.5m$ James Webb Space Telescope. A generation of astronomers will celebrate their accomplishments for the life of the mission, potentially as long as 20 years, and beyond. This report and the scientific discoveries that follow are extended thank-you notes to the 20,000 team members. The telescope is working perfectly, with much better image quality than expected. In this and accompanying papers, we give a brief history, describe the observatory, outline its objectives and current observing program, and discuss the inventions and people who made it possible. We cite detailed reports on the design and the measured performance on orbit.Comment: Accepted by PASP for the special issue on The James Webb Space Telescope Overview, 29 pages, 4 figure

GC-QTOF MS data from Hebridean crannogs

GC-QTOF MS data from four Hebridean Neolithic crannogs (Loch Langhabat, Loch Bhorgastail, Loch Arnish and Loch an Duna) as well as four sediment samples from Loch Bhorgastai

GC-Q-ToF MS data for lipid residues from 40 archaeological samples excavated at Vindolanda (UK)

This data is part of the NERC-funded project entitled: 'Palaeolipidomics: a new biomarker approach to trace cereal agriculture in prehistory'. This data set was used to demonstrate the potential of a newly developed non-targeted workflow for processing and interpretation of GC-MS data from archaeological research