[DAS2] AstroDAS: Astronomy Distributed Annotation System

[Antony Quinn]

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AstroDAS considers the identification of entities across sky nodes to be 
a database integration problem. Its solution, inspired in part by the 
BioDAS effort in bioinformatics, features an annotation database with a 
web service interface to store and query annotations. The use of web 
services provides interoperability with the rest of the Virtual 
Observatory. Our prototype system resolves queries on astronomy 
catalogues using mapping tables that are dynamically constructed from 
annotations of celestial object matches.
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