FW: [AstroLib] New thesaurus created for the astronomy community

[Robert J. Hanisch]

From: "Collins at ioppubusa.com<mailto:Collins at ioppubusa.com>" <Collins at ioppubusa.com<mailto:Collins at ioppubusa.com>>
Date: Thursday, 24 January 2013 10:53 AM
To: "astrolib at nrao.edu<mailto:astrolib at nrao.edu>" <astrolib at nrao.edu<mailto:astrolib at nrao.edu>>
Subject: [AstroLib] New thesaurus created for the astronomy community

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have jointly announced the gift of a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that will help improve future information discovery for researchers.

The AAS will make the UAT freely available for development and use within the astronomy community, while ensuring the thesaurus remains relevant and useful.  Further development of the UAT will be undertaken by the John G. Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in collaboration with the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) to enhance and extend the thesaurus to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the astronomy community.

Adoption of the thesaurus within the ADS will result in better linking with the majority of astronomy research journal articles through a common vocabulary, thereby greatly improving the accuracy of information discovery.

The work to combine the thesauri has been carried out by Access Innovations, Inc., a privately held company that specializes in information management and database creation products and services.
For details on this endeavor, please view the press release<http://ioppublishing.org/newsDetails/new-thesaurus-created-for-the-astronomy-community>.

Sincerely,
Sharice
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Sharice P. Collins
Vice President, Marketing
IOP Publishing, Inc.
150 South Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA  19106
ioppublishing.org

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