Treasure-Hunting in Astronomical Plate Archives

In our days astronomical research shows two trends - among others: On the
one hand traditional astronomical plate archives are in danger of falling
into oblivion while science is losing their information content. On the
other hand there is an ever-growing need for long-term monitoring of large
quantities of objects - the very information contained in the archives.

On this background the workshop "Treasure Hunting in Astronomical Plate
Archives" was convened 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.