The number of science datasets now totals almost 200,000.
Work is in progress towards the migration of the entire archive to the new magneto-optical system.
Cessation of ingest to the Sony platters, our current archive media, is expected to occur in early 2000. Work is on-going on the successor to StarView, StarView II, an astronomical database browser and research analysis tool. Developed in Java, StarView II provides an easy to use, highly capable user interface that runs on any Java-enabled platform as an applet or application. StarView II features a superior custom query and search form generation system. This system allows the user to easily define search forms from scratch or to use standard forms as templates.