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EDP Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 1(143), p. 137-143

DOI: 10.1051/aas:2000174

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Search and discovery tools for astronomical on-line resources and services

Journal article published in 2000 by Daniel Egret ORCID, Rj J. Hanisch, Fionn Murtagh
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Abstract

A growing number of astronomical resources and data or information services are made available through the Internet. However valuable information is frequently hidden in a deluge of non-pertinent or non up-to-date documents. At a first level, compilations of astronomical resources provide help for selecting relevant sites. Combining yellow-page services and meta-databases of active pointers may be an efficient solution to the data retrieval problem. Responses generated by submission of queries to a set of heterogeneous resources are difficult to merge or cross-match, because different data providers generally use different data formats: new endeavors are under way to tackle this problem. We review the technical challenges involved in trying to provide general search and discovery tools, and to integrate them through upper level interfaces. ; Comment: 7 pages, 2 Postscript figures; to be published in A&AS