Google Sky and cataloguing standards: an example of the divergence between the most queried astronomical information and what cataloguing standards allow us to describe
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2013.4.1000Keywords:
Google Sky, SIMBAD, NED, cataloguing, MARC 21, ISBD consolidated edition, RDA, celestial cartographic material description, astronomical images, astronomical information retrievalAbstract
A survey has been carried out on the astronomical information supplied by Google Sky and the information which can be described using the standards MARC21, ISBD consolidated edition, and RDA. The main goal of the study is to show that some astronomical and astrophysical information is still not taken into account in describing different astronomical resources as well as cartographic material. This information could eventually be incorporated as description fields of the aforementioned cataloguing rules. Such fields would allow us to carry out a much more complete and adequate description of these astronomical resources. We have focused on celestial objects appearing in astronomical images which can be found in astronomical archives and libraries. First a brief survey of astronomical information supplied by Google Sky and its linked databases, SIMBAD and NED is performed. Subsequently, we show how the existing description fields describe celestial cartographic materials, and finally we present a new proposal consisting of the desirable minimum parameters which could be included in bibliographic records.
Downloads
References
Accomazzi, A. (2010). Astronomy 3.0 Style. In: Isaksson, E [et al]. (editor). Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, vol. 33, 273-281.
Alfonso-Garzón, J; Baladí-Enríquez, D.; Morales Durán, C. (coords.) (2009). 100 conceptos básicos de astronomía. Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa; Sociedad Española de Astronomía; Instituto de Técnica Aeroespacial Esteban Terradas. 102 p. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/16]. Available in: http://www.sea-astronomia.es/drupal/sites/default/files/archivos/100%20Conceptos%20Astr.pdf
Andrew, P. G. (2011). RDA and cartographic materials: mapping a new route. Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Webcast. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/13]. Available in: http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/cat/092811
Anglo-Australian Observatory. Cúmulo globular NGC 5139. [Retrieved at: 2012/11/11]. Available in: http://spider.seds.org/ngc/ngc.cgi?NGC+5139
Arranz, P (2004). Guía de campo de las constelaciones. Madrid: Equipo Sirius, 559 p.
Astro.uchile (2012). Glosario. Departamento de Astronomía. Universidad de Chile. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/16]. Available in: http://www.astro.uchile.cl/glosario/glosario.htm
Astronomía Moderna (2010). Morfología de las galaxias. [Retrieved at: 2012/11/11]. Available in: http://www.astronomiamoderna.com.ar/2011/morfologia-de-las-galaxias/
Bhattacharjee, Y. (2009). Stars in dusty filing cabinets. Science Magazine, vol. 324, 460-461. [Retrieved at: 2012/09/10]. Available in: <http://www.pari. edu/library/ScienceMagazineApr2009archival%20astronomy.pdf>
BrandZTM Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2012 (2012). [Retrieved at: 2012/06/01]. Available in: http://www.millwardbrown.com/brandz/2012/Documents/2012_BrandZ_Top100_Chart.pdf
Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (2012). Expresso. [Retrieved at: 2012/11/11]. Available in: <http://espresso.astro.up.pt/
Corwin, H. G. et al.(1995). The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database: A status report. Astro Lett. and Communications, vol. 31, 9. [Retrieved at: 2011/08/22]. Available in: <http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1995ApL%26C..31....9C&defaultprint=YES&filetype=.pdf
Covington, M. A (2006). Astronomía práctica para principiantes: objetos celestes para telescopios modernos. Madrid: Akal. 271 p.
Debois, P (1989). SIMBAD bibliography and other astronomical bibliographies. Library & Info. Services Astronomy, IAU Coll.110, 150-153. [Retrieved at: 2011/08/21]. Available in: http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1989lisa.conf..150D&defaultprint=YES&filetype=.pdf
Durán Guardeño, A.J. (2012). Newton. La ley de la gravedad. La fuerza más atractiva del universo. Grandes ideas de la ciencia. Navarra: RBA coleccionables, 167 p.
DSpace. Images from the Institute of Astronomy Library. [Retrieved at: 2012/11/12]. Available in: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/214761
Erway, R. (2012). Increasing Access to Special Collections. Liber Quarterly, vol. 21 (2), January, 294-307.
Escolano Rodríguez, E. (2011). Estado de la cuestión de ISBD. VII Encuentro Internacional y III Nacional de Catalogadores “Estándares y procedimientos para la organización de la información”, p. 1-16. [Retrieved at: 2012/09/26]. Available in: http://www.bn.gov.ar/descargas/catalogadores/encuentro2011/ ponencia-23-B-EscolanoRodriguez.pdf
Estivill-Rius, A. (2011). Resource, description and access, RDA. Un nuevo retraso para preparar mejor el cambio. El profesional de la información, noviembre-diciembre, vol. 20 (6), 694-700.
Google Earth (2012a). Home page. [Retrieved at: 2011/05/10]. Available in: http://www.google.es/intl/es/earth/index.html
Google Earth (2012b). Skyin Spanish . [Retrieved at: 2012/05/09]. Available in: <http://www.googlesky.es/>
Grothkopf, U. (2011). Astronomy libraries – Your gateway to information. In: Sterken, S. Scientific writing for young astronomers. EAS Publications Series, p. 91-118. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/20]. Available in: http://www.eso.org/sci/libraries/articles/SWYA/grothkopf-20110111.pdf
Heck, A. (1993). The increasing role of librarians in astronomical information retrieval. Bull. Inform. CDS, (42), 51-55.
Hernández Cervantes, L.; Santillán González, A.; González-Ponce, A. R (2009). Observatorios virtuales astrofísicos. Revista Digital Universitaria UNAM. [Retrieved at: 2011/08/22]. Available in: http://www.oei.es/divulgacioncientifica/reportajes029.htm
IFLA (2012). ISBD namespaces published. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/07]. Available in: <http://www.ifla.org/news/isbd-namespaces-published>
IOP Science (2008). Interview: How Google conquered the sky. Physics Education, vol. 43 (3), 323-325. [Retrieved at: 2011/05/11]. Available in: <http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9120/43/3/M02/pdf/0031-9120_43_3_M02.pdf>
ISBD. International Standard Bibliographic Description. Consolidated edition (2011). IFLA. Series on bibliographic control, vol. 44. Germany : De Gruyter Saur, 284 p.
Kalf, R. (2008). FRBR: an opportunity for map collections and map users? Liber Quarterly, vol. 18 (2), 276-291.
Kanas, N. (2009). Star maps: history, artistry and cartography. 2ª ed.Germany : Praxis, 416 p.
Kumar Rai, V. (2010). Virtual library: an evolution of online astronomy and astrophysics resources for astronomers. In: Isaksson, E [et al]. (editors). Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, vol. 33, p. 348-352.
Lachièze-Rey, M.; Luminet, J-P. (2001). Celestial treasury. From the music of the spheres to the conquest of space. Laredo, J (trad.). Madrid: Cambridge University Press, 207 p.
Lagerstrom, J.; Grothkopf, U. (2010). Astronomy Librarian – Quo vadis?. Future Professional Communication in Astronomy II, p. 110-118. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/07]. Available in: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.1184v1.pdf
Larsgaard, M. L. (2007). FRBR and cartographic materials: mapping out FRBR. In: Taylor, Arlene G. (ed). Understanding FRBR: what it is and how it will affect our retrieval tools. Libraries Unlimited.
Library of Congress (2012a). Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data Model and Supporting Services (November 21, 2012). [Retrieved at: 2013/01/09]. Available in: <http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/>
Library of Congress (2012b). MARC Standards. [Retrieved at: 2012/11/03]. Available in: http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc.html
MARC 21 format for bibliographic data (2012), Library of Congress. [Retrieved at: 2012/11/03].Available in : http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/
Mazzarella, J. M. [et al] (2001). Capabilities of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database in the Era of a Global Virtual Observatory. In: STARCK, J y MURTAGH, F. D. (eds). Proceedings of SPIE: Astronomical Data Analysis, vol. 4477, 1-15 (en prensa). [Retrieved at: 2011/05/22]. Available in: <http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/526371/files/0111200.pdf>
Mc Cool, M. (2009). Touring the cosmos through your computer: a guide to free desktop planetarium software. CAPjournal, (7), 21-23. [Retrieved at: 2011/08/01]. Available in: <http://outreach.as.utexas.edu/marykay/highschool/07_21.pdf>
McEathron, S. R. (2002). Cartographic materials as Works. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, vol. 33 (3-4), 181-191. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J104v33n03_09
McKee, M. (2005). Distant galaxy’s subtle sidling measured. NewScientist. [Retrieved at: 2012/11/11/]. Available in: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7095
McNally, D. (2001). A particular example of a general problem. Astronomy & Geophysics, vol. 42 (3), 3.8.
Molla, M. (2009). Magnitud [on-line]. Sociedad Española de Astronomía. [Retrieved at: 2012/11/14]. Available in: <http://www.seaastronomia.es/drupal/node/253>
Morse, T. (2012). Mapping relationships: examining bibliographic relationships in sheet maps from Tillett to RDA. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, vol. 50(4), 225-248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2012.657292
NED (2012a). Home page [Retrieved at: 2011/08/22]. Available in: http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/
NED (2012b). Advanced All-Sky Search For Objects By Parameters. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/22]. Available in: http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/forms/ byparams.html
NED (2012c). NED’s WWW Interface Features [online]. [Retrieved at: 2012/11/05]. Available in: http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/help/allfeats.html
Picco, P. (2007). RDA: el alcance internacional del nuevo Código de Catalogación. TransInformação, 19 (3), 219-226.
Picco, P.; Ortiz Repiso, V. (2012). RDA, el nuevo código de catalogación: cambios y desafíos para su aplicación. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, vol. 35, 145-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/redc.2012.1.848
ProEspacio (2011). Explotación de datos científicos. Calculando por las nubes… InfoEspacio, (21), 12-18. RDA, resource, description and access (2010). American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, CILIP.
Reid, N (2002). Proper motion selection of candidate nearby dwarfs. [Retrieved at: 2012/11/10]. Available in: http://www-int.stsci.edu/~inr/nstars2.html
Rivera, A. (2012). Dos estrellas para verificar a Einstein. El País. October 4, 2012. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/10/]. Available in: http://sociedad.elpais.com sociedad/2012/10/04/actualidad/1349371913_495108.html
Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) (2012). Library. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/25]. Available in: <http://www.ras.org.uk/library>
Sainz, J. (2012). Formato MARC y cartografía en España. Revista Catalana de Geografía, vol. xvii (46), 1-9. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/20]. Available in: <http://www.rcg.cat/articles.php?id=259>
Schaffner, J. (2009). The metadata is the interface better description for better discovery of archives and special collections, synthesized from user studies. Dublin: OCLC Research, 18 p. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/30]. Available in: <http://www.oclc.org/resources/research/publications/library/2009/2009-06.pdf>
Science Photo Library. (2012). Royal Astronomical Society. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/20]. Available in: <http://www.sciencephoto.com/search?subtype=k eywords&searchstring=royal+astronomical+society&Search.x=21&Search.y=12&media_type=images&license=both&channel=all>
Shobbrook. R.; Genova, F. (1995). SIMBAD for Librarians. Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 39, 155-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0083-6656(95)00069-Y
SIMBAD (2012a). Home page. [Retrieved at: 2012/08/18]. Available in: <http://simbad.ustrasbg.fr/simbad/>
SIMBAD (2012b). Object classification in SIMBAD. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/22]. Available in: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-display?data=otypes
SIMBAD (2012c). Help page. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/22]. Available in: <http://simbad.ustrasbg.fr/simbad/sim-help?Page=sim-fscript>
SIMBAD (2012d). Description of the queriable fields. [Retrieved at: 2012/08/18]. Available in: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-fsam
Verbunt, F.; Van Gent, R. H. (2010a). The star catalogue of Hevelius. Machine-readable version and comparison with the modern Hipparcos Catalogue. Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 516, A29, June-July, 1-22. [Retrieved at: 2013/09/13]. Available in: <http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2010/08/aa14003-10.pdf>
Verbunt, F.; Van Gent, R. H. (2010b). Three editions of the star catalogue of Tycho Brahe. Machinereadable versions and comparison with the modern Hipparcos Catalogue. Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 516, A28, June-July, 1-24. [Retrieved at: 2013/09/13]. Available in: http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2010/08/aa14002-10.pdf
Verbunt, F.; Van Gent, R. H. (2012). The star catalogues of Ptolemaios and Ulugh Beg. Machinereadable version and comparison with the modern HIPPARCOS Catalogue. Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 544, August, A31, 1-34. [Retrieved at: 2013/09/13]. Available in: http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2012/08/aa19596-12.pdf
Wenger, M. (2007). The New Version of SIMBAD. In: Ricketts, S.; Birdie, C.; Isaksson, E. (eds.). Library and Information Services in Astronomy V, vol. 377, p. 197-198.
Wenger, M.; Oberto, A. (2010). Data Mining in the SIMBAD Database Web Log Files. In: Mizumoto, Y.; Morita, K. I.; Ohishi, M. (eds). Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIX. ASP Conference Series, vol. 434, 453-456. [Retrieved at: 2011/05/22]. Available in: http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?2010ASPC..434..453W&defaultprint=YES&filetype=.pdf
Wenger, M. et al. (2000). The SIMBAD astronomical database. The CDS Reference Database for Astronomical Objects. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1-14. [Retrieved at: 2011/05/22].
Wikipedia (2012). Apparent magnitude. [Retrieved at: 2012/10/30].
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2013 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
© CSIC. Manuscripts published in both the print and online versions of this journal are the property of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and quoting this source is a requirement for any partial or full reproduction.
All contents of this electronic edition, except where otherwise noted, are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. You may read the basic information and the legal text of the licence. The indication of the CC BY 4.0 licence must be expressly stated in this way when necessary.
Self-archiving in repositories, personal webpages or similar, of any version other than the final version of the work produced by the publisher, is not allowed.
