Mining the Sky with the CDS Services
Résumé
The Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) develops a set of interlinked services, SIMBAD, VizieR, ALADIN, the Dictionary of Nomenclature, which can be used to find information about particular objects or regions of the sky, or can be sampled by criteria. An example of more advanced usage is also given. New functionalities will be developed in the context of the Virtual Observatory.