The Star*s Family of Astronomy Resources on the Web
André HECK
Observatoire Astronomique
11, rue de l'Université
F-67000 Strasbourg, France
e-mail: heck@astro.u-strasbg.fr
URL: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck
Daniel EGRET
Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
Observatoire Astronomique
11, rue de l'Université
F-67000 Strasbourg, France
e-mail: egret@astro.u-strasbg.fr
URL: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/people/de.html
François OCHSENBEIN
Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
Observatoire Astronomique
11, rue de l'Université
F-67000 Strasbourg, France
e-mail: francois@simbad.u-strasbg.fr
URL: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/people/fo.html
The Star*s Family is a line of
products offering detailed information on astronomical organizations as well as
services of general and practical utility for astronomers and related space scientists.
Several resources are fully operational on the WWW:
- StarWorlds: a database of
organisations, institutions, associations,
companies, and so on, currently gathering together more than 5,000 entries
from about 100 countries with all practical details available and *active*
URLs; it is reachable via the URL http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/starworlds.html;
- StarHeads: a database
of personal WWW pages of individual currently
gathering together more than 1,000 entries and reachable via the URL
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.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.u-strasbg.fr/starbits.html.
The Star*s Family resources offer outstanding advantages such as a twenty-year
tradition/experience in compilations, a resulting good exhaustivity of entries
(including thousands of entries still without WWW link), an 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.