2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Query Languages for Domain Specific Information from PTF Astronomical Repository
The increasing availability of vast amount of astronomical repositories on the cloud has enhanced the importance of query language for the domain-specific information. The widely used keyword-based search engines (such as Google or Yahoo), fail to suffice for the needs of skilled/semi-skilled users due to irrelevant returns. The domain specific astronomy query tools (such as Astroquery, CDS Portal, or XML) provide a single entry point to search and access multiple astronomical repositories, however these lack easy query composition tools in unit-step or multi-stages query. Based on the previous research studies on domain-specific query language tools, we aim to implement a query language for obtaining the domain-specific information from the astronomical repositories (such as PTF data).
