ESIS and the World Wide Web
S. Ansari, P. Giommi, and A. Micol
Information System Division of ESA, Frascati Italy
The European Space Information System (ESIS) is an ESA service to
access, retrieve and compare data from several remote archives of
Astronomical and Space Physics data. ESIS also provides access to
extensive bibliographic information. In general the connected archives
are widely different among themselves and the esis software performs the
task to make them appear as a single large database.
ESIS also provides tools to compare data (images, spectra, time series etc.)
from different experiments and satellites. ESIS can be accessed as a
standalone package or via the World Wide Web. Extensive
documentation, tutorials and standard demonstrations of the system are
available within NCSA Mosaic. Data browsing facilities and a bibliographic
service can be accessed directly within Mosaic. Other ESIS services will
be added in the near future. The ESIS home page can be reached at the
following URL http://mesis.esrin.esa.it/html/esis.html
e-mail: giommi@mail.esrin.esa.it