Information & On-Line Data in Astronomy

Facets and Challenges of the Information Technology Evolution.- The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory Archive.- Data from the X-ray Observatory ROSAT.- The Einstein On-Line Service.- The EUVE Archive.- The IUE Archives.- Building the archive facility of the ESO Very Large Telescope.- Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky (DENIS).- Data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE).- The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database.- LEDA: The Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database.- The Database for Galactic Open Clusters (BDA).- The HEASARC facility.- IPAC Datasets and On-Line Services.- The Archives of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre.- A global perspective on astronomical data and information: the Strasbourg astronomical Data Center (CDS).- Data Holdings in the ADS.- The European Space Information System (ESIS).- The Star*s Family: An example of comprehensive yellow-page services.- Library Information Services.- How to make your information available on the network.- Computer Networking in Astronomy.- Data Storage Technology for Astronomy.- NED and SIMBAD Conventions for Bibliographic Reference Coding.- List of Authors.- List of Acronyms.