The production of electronic product catalogues (EPCs) is a creative process as well as a software design problem. This paper presents the results of the EPK-fix project. It proposes a development model for EPCs, defines a high-level specification language for the description of catalogues and implements a set of integrated tools to support the production process of EPCs. The iterative software...

Even though use studies of card catalogues are quite rare, use of online public access catalogues (OPACs) has been extensively investigated since early 1980s. Yet there are not many attempts to conduct comparative studies highlighting the differences in use of card catalogues and OPACs of the same library and user population. This paper reports an attempt made to study use of the OPAC of ISRO S...

Abstract Program analysis has been developing into a prolific research tradition illustrating the utility of adult education providers and program descriptions as heuristic objects for addressing larger questions social scientific humanistic inquiry. In this tradition, attention directed to way programs educational offers reflect changing labour market, systems cultural zeitgeist . article, we ...

We present an all-sky catalogue that aligns and overlays the ROSAT HRI, RASS, PSPC and WGA X-ray catalogues and the NVSS, FIRST and SUMSS radio catalogues onto the optical APM and USNO-A catalogues. Objects presented are those APM/USNO-A optical objects which are calculated with ≥ 40% confidence to be associated with radio/X-ray detections, or which are identified as known QSOs, AGN or BL Lacs,...

Lagrangian reconstruction of large-scale peculiar velocity fields can be strongly affected by observational biases. We develop a thorough analysis of these systematic effects by relying on specially selected mock catalogues. For the purpose of this paper, we use the Monge-Ampère-Kantorovitch (MAK) reconstruction method, although any other Lagrangian reconstruction method should be sensitive to ...

In this paper we describe in detail the reduction, preparation and reliability of the photometric catalogues which comprise the CFH12K-VIRMOS deep field. This region, consisting of four contiguous pointings of the CFH12K wide-field mosaic camera, covers a total area of 1.2 deg. The survey reaches a limiting magnitude of BAB ∼ 26.5, VAB ∼ 26.2, RAB ∼ 25.9 and IAB ∼ 25.0 (corresponding to the poi...

Biobanks are essential for the realization of P4-medicine, hence indis‐ pensable for smart health. One of the grand challenges in biobank research is to close the research cycle in such a way that all the data generated by one research study can be consistently associated to the original samples, therefore data and knowledge can be reused in other studies. A catalogue must provide the informati...

We present the SCUBA Legacy Catalogues, two comprehensive sets of continuum maps (and catalogues) using data at 850 μm and 450 μm of the various astronomical objects obtained with the Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA). The Fundamental Map Dataset contains data only where superior atmospheric opacity calibration data were available. The Extended Map Dataset is comprised of data r...

By comparing semi-analytic galaxy catalogues with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we show that current galaxy formation models reproduce qualitatively the dependence of galaxy clustering and pairwise peculiar velocities on luminosity, but some subtle discrepancies with the data still remain. The comparisons are carried out by constructing a large set of mock galaxy redshift surve...

We have been recently faced with the problem of cross–identifying stars recorded in historical catalogues with those extracted from recent fully digitized surveys (such as DENIS and 2MASS). Positions mentioned in the old catalogues are frequently of poor precision, but are generally accompanied by finding charts where the interesting objects are flagged. Those finding charts are sometimes our o...