The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus: Semantic Metadata for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Several controlled vocabularies have been developed and used by the astronomical community, each designed to serve a specific need and a specific group. The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) attempts to provide a highly structured controlled vocabulary that will be relevant and useful across the ent...

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Published inThe Astrophysical journal. Supplement series Vol. 236; no. 1; pp. 24 - 30
Main Authors Frey, Katie, Accomazzi, Alberto
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Saskatoon The American Astronomical Society 01.05.2018
IOP Publishing
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Astronomy
Astrophysics
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miscellaneous
publications, bibliography
Thesauri
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Summary:Several controlled vocabularies have been developed and used by the astronomical community, each designed to serve a specific need and a specific group. The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) attempts to provide a highly structured controlled vocabulary that will be relevant and useful across the entire discipline, regardless of content or platform. Because classifying articles and data will be the two major functions of the UAT, we examine the UAT in comparison with the Astronomical Subject Keywords used by major publications and the JWST Science Keywords used by STScI's Astronomer's Proposal Tool.
Bibliography:AAS07539
High-Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
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ISSN:0067-0049
1538-4365
DOI:10.3847/1538-4365/aab760