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Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 143, Number 1, April I 2000
The CDS and NASA ADS Resources: New Tools for Astronomical Research
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| Page(s) | 1 - 7 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:2000333 | |
| Published online | 15 April 2000 | |
The CDS information hub
On–line services and links at the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
CDS, Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, UMR 7550, 11 rue de l'Université, F–67000 Strasbourg, France e-mail: question@simbad.u-strasbg.fr
Send offprint request to: F. Genova
Received:
20
December
1999
Accepted:
17
January
2000
The Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) provides homogeneous access to heterogeneous information of various origins: information about astronomical objects in Simbad; catalogs and observation logs in VizieR and in the catalogue service; reference images and overlays in Aladin; nomenclature in the Dictionary of Nomenclature; Yellow Page services; the AstroGLU resource discovery tool; mirror copies of other reference services; and documentation. With the implementation of links between the CDS services, and with other on–line reference information, CDS has become a major hub in the rapidly evolving world of information retrieval in astronomy, developing efficient tools to help astronomers to navigate in the world-wide “Virtual Observatory” under construction, from data in the observatory archives to results published in journals. The WWW interface to the CDS services is available at: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/
Key words: astronomical data bases: miscellaneous / catalogs / publications, bibliography / surveys / standards
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