(2019) Kashuba, S. V.; Bazyey, N. V.; Kashuba, V. I.; Andrievsky, Serhii M.; Андрієвський, Сергій Михайлович; Андриевский, Сергей Михайлович
Currently Observatory of I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National
University owns collections of astronegatives obtained with
its own instruments (about 100000 glass plates), as well as
those obtained with instruments from other observatories
(about 10000 plates). According to Bulgarian web-page
WFPDB (wfpdb.org) Odessa collection of astroplates is
second in Europe (after Sonneberg collection) and third in
the world (after Harvard and Sonneberg). In this poster we
describe the current condition of our collection and consider
our plans for how to maintain this important astronomical
heritage. We are also discussing our first steps in digitizing
part of a collection in accordance with the decision of the
world virtual observatory and WFPDB standards.