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The Star∗s Family of astronomy resources on the Web
Vistas in Astronomy8 Vol. 39, p, 107, 1995
Copyright @ 1995 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain. All rights reserved 0083-6656195 $29.00 0083-6656(95)00057-7
The Star*s Family of Astronomy Resources on the Web A. Heck, * D. Egret t and E Ochsenbein + * Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de I’Universitt, F-67000 Strasbourg, France t Centre de Don&es astronomiques de Strasbourg, Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de l’UniversitC, F-67000 Strasbourg, France The Star*s Family is a line of products offering detailed information on astronomical orgaas well as services of general and practical utility for astronomers and related space scientists. Several resources are fully operational on the WWW Star Worlds: a database of organizations, institutions, associations, companies, and so on, currently gathering together more than 5000 entries from about 100 countries with all the practical details available and *active* URLs; it is reachable via the URL http://cdsweb.ustrasbg.fr/starworlds.html; StarHeads: a database of personal WWW pages of individuals currently gathering together more than 1000 entries and reachable via the URL http://cdsweb.ustrasbg.fr/starheads.html; StarBits: a dictionary of abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, symbols, and so on, currently gathering together about 85,000 entries; it is reachable via the URL http://cdsweb.ustrasbg.fr/starbits.html. The Star*s Family resources offer outstanding advantages such as a 20 year tradition/experience in compilations, a resulting good, exhaustive database of entries (including thousands of entries still without WWW link), a homegeneous coverage of all practical data, a permanent updating and quality checking scheme (including authentication of data originators), the largest amount of URLs available in a set of astronomy resources, a unique astronomy-oriented dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations, and so on. nizations
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Copyright @ 1995 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain. All rights reserved 0083-6656195 $29.00 0083-6656(95)00057-7
The Star*s Family of Astronomy Resources on the Web A. Heck, * D. Egret t and E Ochsenbein + * Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de I’Universitt, F-67000 Strasbourg, France t Centre de Don&es astronomiques de Strasbourg, Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de l’UniversitC, F-67000 Strasbourg, France The Star*s Family is a line of products offering detailed information on astronomical orgaas well as services of general and practical utility for astronomers and related space scientists. Several resources are fully operational on the WWW Star Worlds: a database of organizations, institutions, associations, companies, and so on, currently gathering together more than 5000 entries from about 100 countries with all the practical details available and *active* URLs; it is reachable via the URL http://cdsweb.ustrasbg.fr/starworlds.html; StarHeads: a database of personal WWW pages of individuals currently gathering together more than 1000 entries and reachable via the URL http://cdsweb.ustrasbg.fr/starheads.html; StarBits: a dictionary of abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, symbols, and so on, currently gathering together about 85,000 entries; it is reachable via the URL http://cdsweb.ustrasbg.fr/starbits.html. The Star*s Family resources offer outstanding advantages such as a 20 year tradition/experience in compilations, a resulting good, exhaustive database of entries (including thousands of entries still without WWW link), a homegeneous coverage of all practical data, a permanent updating and quality checking scheme (including authentication of data originators), the largest amount of URLs available in a set of astronomy resources, a unique astronomy-oriented dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations, and so on. nizations
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