SkyMouse: A smart interface for astronomical on-line resources and services
Chen-Zhou CUI (1), Hua-Ping SUN (1), Yong-Heng ZHAO (1), Yu LUO (1),, Da-Zhi QI (2) ((1) National Astronomical Observatories, CAS; (2) Tianjin, University)

TL;DR
SkyMouse is a lightweight, user-friendly interface that simplifies access to diverse online astronomical resources by leveraging screen word-capturing technology, enhancing research efficiency and resource discovery.
Contribution
It introduces a novel, easy-to-use interface that enables transparent, uniform access to heterogeneous astronomical online resources using simple mouse actions.
Findings
Enables quick querying of multiple information systems
Provides a unified web interface for astronomical data
Facilitates comprehensive overview of celestial objects
Abstract
With the development of network and the World Wide Web (WWW), the Internet has been growing and changing dramatically. More and more on-line database systems and different kinds of services are available for astronomy research. How to help users find their way through the jungle of information services becomes an important challenge. Although astronomers have been aware of the importance of interoperability and introduced the concept of Virtual Observatory as a uniform environment for future astronomical on-line resources and services, transparent access to heterogeneous on-line information is still difficult. SkyMouse is a lightweight interface for distributed astronomical on-line resources and services, which is designed and developed by us, i.e., Chinese Virtual Observatory Project. Taking advantage of screen word-capturing technology, different kinds of information systems can be…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAstronomical Observations and Instrumentation · Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
