The CDS information hub

F. Genova (1) , D. Egret (2) , O. Bienaymé (1) , F. Bonnarel (1) , P. Dubois (2) , P. Fernique (1) , G. Jasniewicz , Soizick Lesteven (2) , R. Monier (3) , F. Ochsenbein (1) , M. Wenger (1)

1 OAS - Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg
2 ObAS - Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg
3 OCA - Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur

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/

Keywords: ASTRONOMICAL DATA BASES: MISCELLANEOUS; CATALOGS; PUBLICATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SURVEYS; STANDARDS

Domains: Astrophysics [astro-ph]

F. Genova, D. Egret, O. Bienaymé, F. Bonnarel, P. Dubois, et al.. The CDS information hub. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 2000, 143 (1), pp.1-7. ⟨10.1051/aas:2000333⟩. ⟨insu-02889433⟩