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The Future of Memory: Archiving Astronomical Information

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

M.J. Kurtz
M.J. Kurtz*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.

Abstract

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The function of astronomers is to capture and create information and send it into the future. The vehicle for this transmission of knowledge is the archive. The digital revolution is quickly rendering our paper and glass archives obsolete; great challenges exist in creating archive systems for digital data. We can only meet these challenges by substantial shared effort.

Type
Part Seven: Archiving and Databases
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 161: Astronomy from Wide-Field Imaging , 1994 , pp. 331 - 337
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

References

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