Controlled Vocabulary: “The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus” (Creation and Maintenance)

The following paper was presented at the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXIII, September 29-October 3, 2013 and recently made available via arXiv.

Title

The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus

Authors

Alberto Accomazz
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Norman Gray
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow
Chris Erdmann
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Chris Biemesderfer
American Astronomical Society
Katie Frey
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Justin Soles
School of Information Studies, McGill University

Source

via arXiv.org

Abstract

The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) is an open, interoperable and community-supported thesaurus which unifies the existing divergent and isolated Astronomy & Astrophysics vocabularies into a single high-quality, freely-available open thesaurus formalizing astronomical concepts and their inter-relationships. The UAT builds upon the existing IAU Thesaurus with major contributions from the astronomy portions of the thesauri developed by the Institute of Physics Publishing, the American Institute of Physics, and SPIE. We describe the effort behind the creation of the UAT and the process through which we plan to maintain the document updated through broad community participation.

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See Also:  A New Thesaurus Created for the Astronomy Community (infoDOCKET Post From January 25, 2013)

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