The AstroWeb Database
The AstroWeb database was designed to facilitate distributed
maintenance; in particular, it is coded in an agreed interchange
format . Concurrent maintenance work was done at both MSSSO and
NRAO during March 1994; copies of the database were edited in parallel
and the merging of concurrent changes was assisted by the AstroWeb
toolset. Since about 1-July-94 the STScI version
has been considered to be the master database; as of 7/31/94 it
is 262 kilobytes of text containing 932 resource records
(
most recent statistics ). Members of the Consortium edit the
master database with a set of tools coded in Tcl (Tool control
language). The database can be sorted in a variety of
ways:
Contributing Records to the Database
The Consortium welcomes contributions of resource records to the
database:
Click here
to add a resource record to the AstroWeb database.
Click here
to add a
personal-URL record
to the database.
Click here
to review recently-submitted resource records.
Click here
to send a database correction report to the AstroWeb consortium members.
AstroWeb Software
The Consortium has developed a variety of software to support database
maintenance as well as the creation of various presentation formats
from the master database:
- Tools are available for syntax-checking, sorting and classifying
resource records. These tools are coded in the
AWK language
.
- The database-search utility and the URL-validator are coded in the
Tcl language
.
The latter tool tests essentially all of the URLs in the
Astroweb database once every 24 hours, and produces a failure report
for the Consortium members.
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