[AstroLib] New thesaurus created for the astronomy community

[Rob Seaman]

Great to see this project continue to move forward!
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On Jan 25, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Alberto Accomazzi <aaccomazzi at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Hi Alasdair,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> -- Alberto