Information Retrieval To ols and Techniques
A Accomazzi
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge MA USA
F Murtagh
SpaceTelescope European Coordinating Facility European Southern
Observatory Garching near Munich Germany A liatedtoAstrophysics
Division Space ScienceDepartment European SpaceAgency
B F Rasmussen
SpaceTelescope European Coordinating Facility European Southern
Observatory Garching near Munich Germany
Abstract
Retrieval of data and information is something whichevery librarian scientist
and technologist do es many times over in eachworking day Much progress has
b een made in recentyears and weoverview search engines and distributed to ol
sets However there are still some problems to b e overcome b efore heterogeneous
data can b e integrated for the user in a seamless way chie y in regard to seamless
integration of image data into current practices We present a short state of the art
overview of the outstanding achievements of recentyears and of some of the more
challenging and p otentially fruitful op en issues