NED and SIMBAD Conventions for Bibliographic Reference Coding
Abstract
The authors describe the structure of the 19-digit bibliographic reference code used in the SIMBAD, NED, and ADS databases for unambiguously identifying bibliographic sources. The code is general enough to encompass most of the existing astronomical literature, and can in most cases easily deciphered by eye.
- Publication:
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Information & On-Line Data in Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-94-011-0397-8_24
- Bibcode:
- 1995ASSL..203..259S
- Keywords:
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- Data Bases: Bibliography