Wrapping It All Up

• What's next?
  • NSSDC Master Reference - an on-line resource of reference materials for staff and the user community
  • On-line ordering of NSSDC Data
  • Applications to the NASA Master Catalog and the NASA Master Directory
  • Applications to the NASA Discipline Data Systems
  • Applications to the NASA Office of Standards and Technology
  • Connections between the data held in NASA (and other's) archives and the refereed scientific literature (American Astronomical Society)

• What do we need?
  • Interactive Forms
  • Interfaces between http servers and SQL databases
  • URNs
  • Better HTML markup tools
  • Standalone capabilities for WAIS (i.e., CD-ROMs)
  • Enhanced character sets
    • Scientific journals (ApJ) can require as many as 1200 different characters

• Contacting us

  STELAR Project

  stelar-info@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov

  National Space Science Data Center

  request@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov

  American Astronomical Society

  aas@blackhole.aas.org

  NSSDC Information Systems Development

  archie.warnock@gsfc.nasa.gov

  I'm outta here!