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VizieR is a database grouping in an homogeneous way thousands of astronomicalcatalogues gathered since decades by the Centre de Donnees de Strasbourg (CDS)and participating institutes. The history and current status of this largecollection is briefly presented, and the way these catalogues are beingstandardized to fit in the VizieR system is described. The architecture of thedatabase is then presented, with emphasis on the management of links and ofaccesses to very large catalogues. Several query interfaces are currentlyavailable, making use of the ASU protocol, for browsing purposes or for use byother data processing systems such as visualisation tools.
Ochsenbein et al. (Sat,) studied this question.