[AstroLib] New thesaurus created for the astronomy community

[Alberto Accomazzi]

Hi Alasdair,

We do have a SKOS preview of the thesaurus which we are making available 
to interested developers upon request.  This is not to be secretive but 
to satisfy issues related to IP and dealing with feedback from users. 
You can read more about this at http://astrothesaurus.org, in particular 
see the blog and "contact us" pages to request the skos version.

Right now what we have is a merge of the IAU IOP and AIP thesauri. 
Additional updates from IVOA (Rick's work), SPIE and other sources will 
be forthcoming.  You'll be happy to know that Norman has been involved 
from the get-go but additional IVOA participation will be much 
appreciated going forward.  For one, we could use some advice and help 
with setting up a distributed curation platform for the thesaurus, as we 
have discussed a few times with Norman.

-- Alberto


Alasdair J G Gray wrote, On 1/25/13 4:15 PM:
> Hi Robert,
>
> I see in the press release mentions of semantic technology. Do you know
> if the new thesaurus is being made available in SKOS? Is this building
> on the earlier work in this group around thesauri?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alasdair
>
> On 25 Jan 2013, at 16:04, "Robert J. Hanisch" <hanisch at stsci.edu
> <mailto:hanisch at stsci.edu>> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> - - -
>> Sharice P. Collins
>> Vice President, Marketing
>> IOP Publishing, Inc.
>> 150 South Independence Mall West
>> Philadelphia, PA  19106
>> ioppublishing.org <http://ioppublishing.org>
>>
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Dr. Alberto Accomazzi                  aaccomazzi(at)cfa harvard edu
Program Manager
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