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Literature and Catalogs in Electronic Form: Questions, Ideas and an Example: the IBVS |
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145, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII |
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474 |
| Authors: |
Holl, A. |
| Abstract: |
While transforming astronomical journals and catalogs to electronic form, we should have in sight two questions: making it easier for the human reader to locate and comprehend information. At the same time, some of the text read by humans in the past, will be --- or already is --- processed by machines, and should be laid down in a different way than formerly. Information should flow more easily, but references to the origin should be kept all the way along. With the same effort, references could be checked automatically. To achieve this goal, appropriate markup should be used. Software technology has applicable ideas for this problem. In this paper we discuss the problems of transferring old issues of astronomical journals to computerised formats, and designing formats for new material, using the example of the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, along with experience with other journals --- like the AAS CD-ROM and JAD. Some problems with machine-readable catalogs are also investigated, with ideas about improving formats (FITS) and access tools. |
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