Report on the Workshop `Threasure-Hunting in Astronomical Plate Archives'

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Abstract

In March, 1999, the international workshop `Treasure-Hunting in Astronomical Plate Archives' was convened at Sonneberg Observatory in order to discuss the scientific potential of the world's photometric and astrometric plate archives, ways of making them fully available to scientific research, as well as technical problems connected with this. The main results will be summarized in the following.


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