CODATA: Montreal
September 30, 2002
Astronomy and
Astrophysics
Does fairly well in
information technology
•Has excellent online literature services
–ADS
Abstracts
–Journals
–Preprints
•Has a good history of data archiving
•Has reasonable data access policies
•BUT
–As a scientist it is frustrating
and time-consuming to locate suitable data and data quality is often sub-standard
Summary