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Leonardo Mureddu, Franca Denotti and Gianni Alvito
Stazione Astronomica di Cagliari, Capoterra, Cagliari, Italy
The CAO library has participated in 1995 in the first experiment of CUBAI (Denotti & Mureddu 1995), an integrated astronomical catalog based on the cooperation of all the Italian astronomical observatories, and in the SICOB, the academic information network of the Cagliari area.
Recently, with the implementation of a Web server, an on-line version of the library catalog was also created. This poster shows the main characteristics of this catalog, together with the tools and formats we have used.
Tag
Field name
Rep
Type
Length
Subfields
01
Title/responsible entity
R
X
800
tscdra
02
Edition
R
X
100
er
03
Typology
A
2
04
Imprint
R
X
240
lndsta
05
Description
R
X
240
ea
06
Collection
R
X
240
tprav
07
Condition
X
100
10
Notes
R
X
400
12
Language
R
A
3
13
Country
R
X
12
18
ISBN/ISSN
R
X
100
bs
41
Personal author
X
240
cnq
42
Corporate author
X
240
1qa2b
51
Add. pers. authors
R
X
240
cnq
52
Add. corp. authors
R
X
240
1qa2b
61
Subjects (keywords)
R
X
400
st
62
CDD
X
15
63
Abstract
R
X
480
71
Location
R
X
50
72
Date of cataloging
N
6
73
Operator
R
A
2
74
Inventory number
X
30
si
87
Loan permitted
A
1
88
State of loan
A
1
89
On loan to
X
200
dn
91
Acquisition
A
2
92
Price or value
X
100
cfs
94
Check
A
2
Since the first diffusion of the World Wide Web many efforts have been devoted to the creation of interfaces to be used with the existing library databases, in particular those based upon CDS/ISIS.
Two approaches have been exploited:
Both methods have been widely used in the last years. For instance, the first realization of the CUBAI project (Ferrucci & Balestra 1994) for an integrated astronomical catalog in Italy was based on the WAIS search engine on an export of the databases to text files. A second approach was the realization of a WAIS-ISIS interface to search the database itself. It is obvious that this second approach is preferable because it offers the real-time searchability of the catalog.
The solution to be adopted strongly depends on the hardware platform where the CDS/ISIS software is installed. The library catalog at CAO is based on a PC running CDS/ISIS under WIN-95. The WWW server is run on a second computer (http://www.ca.astro.it ), which acts as main gateway for all incoming requests as well as outgoing data. The scheme of the interface is given in Fig. 1.
The software we adopted is WWWISIS, developed and distributed in Brazil by the BIREME organization. It is designed to act as a server for ISIS databases in a WWW client-server environment, with a CGI interface developed in Perl language. Figures 2 and 3 show the homepage and the search form for the book catalog. A useful feature of the search interface is the possibility to pick a keyword from a pop-up list in the form.
Denotti, F. & Mureddu, L. 1995, 1st CUBAI Workshop: Rome 1995
Ferrucci, M.& Balestra A. 1994, WWWorkshop: Padova 1994
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