The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus
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.
- Publication:
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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXIII
- Pub Date:
- May 2014
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1403.6656
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1403.6656
- Bibcode:
- 2014ASPC..485..461A
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Computer Science - Digital Libraries
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXIII, which took place September 29-October 3, 2013