Abstract
In 1981 our scientific team was involved in the management of large amount of HI-data. The goal, at this time, was only our own scientific research. In a collaboration with G. and A. de Vaucouleurs we started to add optical information to our first HI-catalog. It was our first contact with the difficult problem of cross-identifying two catalogs and merging them. To face this problem, one of us (GP) decided to rationalize the management by creating a database. It was created in 1983 at Lyon Observatory. LEDA is thus the oldest Extragalactic Database. Since this time, the database has been continuously updated and improved.
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Paturel, G. et al. (1995). LEDA: The Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database. In: Egret, D., Albrecht, M.A. (eds) Information & On-Line Data in Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 203. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0397-8_11
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