Version History

The Science Programme Committee of ESA approved in May 1998 the transfer of the Archive of IUE to the Laboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental (LAEFF) of INTA. As a consequence a Transfer Programme was started at LAEFF under contract to ESA with the goal of passing the responsibilities for the maintenance of the Archive and the associated distribution system, the INES System, from the ESA IUE Project to the LAEFF.

The INES System version 3.0 includes the following new features:

• Built-in Name Resolver.



• New Homogenization of object Names and Coordinates.



• Search by list of objects.



• Plots including errors and quality flags.



• Bibliographic references have been updated up to October 2000. There are 66683 entries giving a reference between IUE images and 3725 published papers in the main Journals.



• National Host and Principal Centre software, version 3.0, was developed jointly by ESA and LAEFF under the "INES Transfer Programme". It was developed from the INES version 2.0, written by I. Skillen.

• Linux - RedHat distribution (6.x) operating system.



• Apache HTTP server.



• MySQL relational database management system.



• PERL, the Programmable Extraction and Reporting Language with the Database Interface (DBI) and Data Base Driver (DBD) modules, and the Common Gateway Interface (CGI).



• CFITSIO, library to handle the FITS data format.



• PGPLOT, as graphic subroutine library.

• The data set contained 110033 images. There were 1419 images which could not be included due to several problems, like missing raw data or processing problems. These images are considered as non-existent.



• Bibliographic references were updated up to December 1998. There were 60849 entries giving a reference between IUE images and 3585 published papers in the main Journals.



• Documentation and on-line help were improved.



• A HelpDesk facility, based on JitterBug, was implemented.



• National Host and Principal Centre software, version 2.0, was written under contract to ESA (I.Skillen, LoA-PX026980, PX006990). It was developed from the INES prototype, version 1.0, which was written by M. Barylak and I. Yurrita.