ARIBIB

The ARIBIB aims at presenting references to the literature from the remote past until the middle of the year 2000.

At present, the ARIBIB contains references to the literature from all Volumes of 'Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts' (Literature of the year 1969 to Literature of the first part of the year 2000) in the 'reference format'.

Information on the older literature (1968 and earlier) is presently not fully available to us in a machine-readable format:
(1) The literature from 1899 until 1968 (Volumes 1 - 68 of the Astronomischer Jahresbericht) is contained in the ARIBIB in the 'image format' or in the 'index format'.
(2) The literature from ancient epochs until about 1880 contained in the ARIBIB is based on the printed bibliographies published by J. C. Houzeau and A. Lancaster and by J. J. de Lalande. This literature is given in the 'image format'.

We are also carrying out tests for including bibliographical information on the astronomical literature between 1881 and 1898 into the ARIBIB.

Furthermore, the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut intends to include older literature in the 'reference format' into the ARIBIB. This is a long-term project.

In summary, the ARIBIB contains at present the literature of the following years in the listed formats:

• 2000/Part 1 - 1969 : Reference format
  
• 1968 - 1954 : Image format
  
• 1953 - 1918 : Index format [At the internal ARI computers: Image format]
  
• 1917 - 1899 : Image format
  
• 1898 - 1881 : Very few tests only.
  
• 1880 and earlier: Image format