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Potsdam Library of Astronomical Photographic Plates

Tsvetkova, Katya, Tsvetkov, Milcho, Kirov, Nikolay, Boehm, Petra, Steinmetz, Matthias, Arlt, Rainer, Enke, Harry, von Berlepsch, Regina (2012)

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ACM Computing Classification System (1998): J.2. We present the Potsdam photographic plate library at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. It includes plate archives, data from plate index catalogues and extracts from astronomical logbooks, as well as digitized plate images and interfaces for accessing all the available information. The plate index catalogues and the digitized images of the Potsdam astronomical photographic plates are prepared according to the...

Photographic Plate Libraries at European Astronomical Observatories

Tsvetkova, Katya, Tsvetkov, Milcho, Kounchev, Ognyan (2012)

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ACM Computing Classification System (1998): J.2. This paper presents the efforts to organize photographic plate libraries at European astronomical observatories and institutions. The Wide-Field Plate Database project, launched in 1991, has been collecting data about the plates, including plate archives, plate index catalogue data extracted from the logbooks, and digitized plate images. Developing further the WFPDB project, we intend to complete the high-resolution digitization...

The Wide-Field Plate Database: Development and Access via Internet

Tsvetkov, Milcho (2012)

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ACM Computing Classification System (1998): J.2. The motivations and results from the first 1.5-year period of the project “Wide-field Plate Database (WFPDB): Development and Access via Internet” (DO-02-273/18.12.2008), approved for funding through a competition held by the Bulgarian National Science Fund in the field of Promotion of Research in Priority Areas, are described. The main direction of the development of the project is digitization and preservation of, and web...

Software Tools for Digitization of Astronomical Photographic Plates

Kirov, Nikolay, Tsvetkov, Milcho, Tsvetkova, Katya (2012)

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ACM Computing Classification System (1998): J.2. In this paper we present tools for helping the process of digitization of astronomical photographic plates. The requirements of Virtual Observatory presume that any FITS file, which contains a digital image, has to be equipped with a complete header. Wide-Field Plate Database (WFPDB) offers most of the meta-data needed for the creation of FITS header. The header2011 software gives the user an appropriate tool for connecting...

Technology for Scanning Astronomical Photographic Plates

Tsvetkov, Milcho, Tsvetkova, Katya, Kirov, Nikolay (2012)

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ACM Computing Classification System (1998): J.2. Here we describe the technology and the experience during the astronomical photographic plate digitization with flatbed EPSON scanners. More than 275000 plates in different observatories in Europe were digitized with such scanners last decade. This work is supported by the BG NSF DO-02-273 and DO-02-275 grants and DFG grant STE: 710/6-1,20.11.2009.

Organization and Security of the Audio and Video Archive for Unique Bulgarian Bells

Noev, Nikolay (2010)

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AMS Subj. Classification: H.3.7 Digital Libraries, K.6.5 Security and Protection The purpose of this investigation is to study and to identify the most valuable unique bells as well as to develop a digital archive with the help of advanced technologies. The main tasks are: development of the audio archive of information gathered from artifacts, analysis, optimization and addition of metadata for indexing of digital data, compression and data protection, prevention of data...