16–17 Jun 2011
JCDL2011/Ottawa/Canada
America/New_York timezone

ADSLabs: Astronomy Meets Disciplinary Repositories

17 Jun 2011, 09:00
15m
JCDL2011/Ottawa/Canada

JCDL2011/Ottawa/Canada

Speaker

Alberto Accomazzi (Harvard CFA)

Summary

he NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a bibliographic repository of Astronomy and Physics literature, with over 8 million metadata records and 1.1 million fulltext documents. In January 2011, ADS launched ADSLabs, a platform for testing new technologies and services. Currently, ADS Labs features a new interface for metadata searches, faceted filtering of results, visualization of paper and author networks, article-level recommendations, and a full-text search service. Linkages between literature and astronomical data which ADS harvests from collaborating institutions are exposed in ADSLabs via mashups and facets. ADS Labs is available at http://adslabs.org

Primary author

Alberto Accomazzi (Harvard CFA)

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