The European Space Information System (ESIS) project was initiated in 1988 as a service for homogeneous access to heterogeneous databases on the network. At the time, DECNET , EARN and Bitnet were the main academic links. The project pre-dated the World Wide Web, which immensely pushed technology in 1993 to allow homogeneous access to data.
5-432: ESIS may refer to: Element Structure Information Set European Space Information System European chemical Substances Information System European Structural Integrity Society Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title ESIS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
10-790: Is today being implemented in the Virtual Observatory projects, such as the Astrophysical Virtual Observatory . The greatest success of ESIS was the transfer of its Catalogue Browser to the CDS, which later became better known as the VizieR Catalogue Service. In recent years, the ESIS concept, which was decades ahead of its time, is reflected in the ESA Sky tool encompassing over 75 space missions and multiple data archives giving
15-407: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ESIS&oldid=1219837825 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages European Space Information System Initially, the ESIS project
20-517: The time were the Hubble Space Telescope , EXOSAT and IUE , while Space Physics was mainly focused on the Cluster mission . Having been a pioneer project in its days, many of the original concepts used then (such as catalogue browsing, searching in an area of the sky) were later embedded in other astronomical data services worldwide. ESIS provided the building blocks and the prototypes to what
25-893: Was to link databases of the European Space Agency together with centres of excellence that included the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg and its SIMBAD service, the European Southern Observatory and the Canadian Astronomical Data Centre (CADC), as well as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for Space Physics data The outcome of the project yielded a set of applications to browse catalogues, access images, spectra and lightcurves, as well as access to bibliographic information. The main astronomical missions that influenced ESIS at
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