Abstract
The Centre de Données astronomiques de
Strasbourg (CDS) has dealt with bibliographic
information for many years. References of
publications, published observational data related
to objects, data tables, nomenclature, have been
homogenized and organized into information
retrieval systems: SIMBAD, the reference database
for the identification and bibliography of
astronomical objects; the catalogue service and
the VizieR catalogue Browser, for data tables; the
Dictionary of Nomenclature of Astronomical
objects, which is now maintained by the CDS.
Evolution in recent years has brought the Data
Centers closer to the publishing process. General
standards for astronomy, for the description of
references and of data tables, have been proposed
and implemented. Data tables from papers are now
directly published in electronic form, and
distributed on-line by the Data Centers. The
emergence of fully electronic publication paves
the way to innovative new services, linking the
journals to other sources of informations (data
bases, tables, then images, data archives), and
making use of new methods for information
retrieval. This also has an effect on the
publishing process, with the possibility to
implement new checks and links from text to other
kinds of information (from objects names,
positions, etc.). The CDS will bring some of
thekey features in the evolution towards a fully
linked astronomy information system, in close
collaboration with the journal editors, the ADS,
the other Data Centers, and the data
providers.
On-line information retrieval systems for energy studies
