Telescope Bibliography Cookbook

Sandra Kitt & Uta GrothkopfEuropean Southern Observatory Library

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Telbib purpose From ingredients to the final dish(Complete the life-cycle of data)

Observing programs

Data archive

Papers

Telescope bibliography

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Ingredients

Access to scientific literature, e.g. via ADS

Ideally: full-text search tool, e.g. FUSE

Database for managing records of papers

Policy to determine which papers qualify

Method for assigning keywords or tags

Data archive to link papers and observations

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ESO Science Archive

Telescopes / Instruments

Authors

ProgramIDs

Observing Dates

ESO Science Archive

Program IDs from ESO Archive

Cooking time

telbib database content

➡ bibliographic record

➡ tags, keywords

➡ program IDs

➡ details provided by authors of papers

Depends on

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Fast-Food RecipeHigh heat for fast result

Institutional policy applied by authors

ESO: program IDs in footnote

Also check Acknowledgments, Facilities, Observations, Abstract, Tables

Verify programs !

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ESO + program IDsin footnote

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ESO + program IDsin footnote

2009: approx. 60% proIDs in footnote or acknowledgments

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Examples 1Program IDs in Footnote

Program IDs in Table

Program IDs in FootnoteInstruments in Facilities

Program ID in text

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Medium-speed RecipeSimmer under moderate heat

Check Observations section or Tables for observing dates

Check authors’ names + observed object (does not work for archival observations)

Check instruments + observation dates

Data Archive:

Paper:

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Examples 2

Observing dates in Table

Program IDs in Footnote

Observing dates in Observations section

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Slow-Food RecipeReduce heat, continue cooking

Read full-text carefully, look for previously published papers in same series

Check Acknowledgment: data provided by colleagues?

Observations taken during technical time w/o proper program IDs?

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Examples 3Program IDs in Footnote

Acknowledgment of observers who provided data

Data taken during technical time

Referring back to previously published paper (Paper I)

Observing date + instrument + object in text

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Final StepsWhen all else fails...

Contact author for clarification

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Result

Delicious meal that serves many people

(Database that links published literature with observational data, and vice versa.)

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