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NOAO Newsletter - National Solar Observatory - March 1999 - Number 57


Solar Data Delivery for the Digital Age

As public use of the Internet continues to explode, NSO is developing new ways to deliver data to both scientific users and the general public. In particular, NSO has enhanced its ability to provide data products by installing a set of robotic juke-boxes containing 300 CD-ROM discs. This system now houses the entire set of daily solar images from the KPVT, the entire set of spectra from the FTS and a growing portion of the SP/ESF spectroheliograms. The holdings of this Digital Library are searchable via a web-based interface to a relational database. Since the Library is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, users can obtain data at their convenience and NSO scientific staff resources are released for application to other tasks. The "front door" of the library can be found at the URL http://www.nso.noao.edu/diglib/.

Frank Hill


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