Welcome to our archive of metadata for digitized astronomical plates from observatories around the world
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:
Take a look at this chart that represent amount of metadata across different observatories.
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