Perspectives on the use of WWW in Italian Astronomy.
L. Benacchio
Osservatorio Astronomico
Padova
Astronomers are using, since centuries, the more modern and up-to-date
methods and tools for the communication of the scientific knowledge. This
is demonstrated, i.e., by the collection of letters between
Galileo and Copernicus, or, more recently, by the establishment, in the 30's,
of the system of Astronomical Telegrams of the International Astronomical
Union.
The Italian astronomers are organized in a network, Astronet, from the
early 80's. Recently the Astronomical Observatories are studying the new
powerful tool, that is
WWW.
Through a common mosaic page of
Astronet
one can reach
the home pages of several Observatories in Italy (presently
Padova, Milano,
Trieste,
Firenze, Cagliari). Pages are at he moment experimental in the sense
that each Observatory is trying a different use: internal documentation and
activity, Project documentation. Of particular interest are the pages
on Large Binocular Telescope, click on Florence in the Astronet Page, and
on Galileo National Telescope, click on
Padova and
Trieste.
e-mail: benacchio@astrpd.pd.astro.it
decnet: astrpd::benacchio
the Padova url is
http://www.pd.astro.it/
the Astronet one is
http://www.pd.astro.it/Astronet/Home-Page.html