Merging the Astrophysics and Planetary Science Information Systems

Michael J. Kurtz, Alberto Accomazzi, Edwin A. Henneken
(Submitted on 9 Mar 2018)

Conceptually exoplanet research has one foot in the discipline of Astrophysics and the other foot in Planetary Science. Research strategies for exoplanets will require efficient access to data and information from both realms. Astrophysics has a sophisticated, well integrated, distributed information system with archives and data centers which are interlinked with the technical literature via the Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The information system for Planetary Science does not have a central component linking the literature with the observational and theoretical data. Here we propose that the Committee on an Exoplanet Science Strategy recommend that this linkage be built, with the ADS playing the role in Planetary Science which it already plays in Astrophysics. This will require additional resources for the ADS, and the Planetary Data System (PDS), as well as other international collaborators

Comments:    Whitepaper submitted to the Committee on an Exoplanet Science Strategy
Subjects:    Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
Cite as:    arXiv:1803.03598 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:1803.03598v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
Submission history
From: Michael J. Kurtz
[v1] Fri, 9 Mar 2018 17:05:18 GMT (514kb)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03598