Damien Guillaume, Fionn Murtagh (University of Ulster, Observatoire Astronomique deStrasbourg)
Reference URL: http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~damien/these/
We have defined an XML language for astronomy, called AML (Astronomical Markup Language), able to represent meta-information for astronomical objects, tables, articles and authors. The various AML documents created have links between them, and an innovative tool can cluster the documents with a graph-partitioning algorithm using the links. The result is displayed on a density map similar to Kohonen Self-Organising Maps. AML and its advantages will be briefly described, as well as the clustering program, which is one of the many possible applications of AML.