Metadata for Digitized Astronomical Plates

Welcome to our archive of metadata for digitized astronomical plates from observatories around the world

Basic Information

Computer software is used for the processing of digitized metadata. All metadata must be transcribed from the envelopes of astronomical plates taken with a digital camera.

This method is only one for metadata extracting from a digitized form and for the subsequent creation of electronic database. In terms of success of metadata transfer into an electronic form are 3 essential factors:

  • Focus of digital images
  • readibility of handwritten details
  • and missing data issue

There are more than 2000 records in this archive

Take a look at this chart that represent amount of metadata across different observatories.

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