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The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus
- sanxiyn 7y agoThis is built around hypernym/hyponym hierarchy. Here are some samples to get what this is about. Cepheid (not RR Lyrae) variable star is a kind of pulsating (not cataclysmic) variable star is a kind of intrinsic (not extrinsic) variable star is a kind of variable star is a kind of star. Red (not O-type) giant star is a kind of giant (not supergiant) star is a kind of evolved (not main sequence) star is a kind of star.
- jamewatson 7y agoRe: Several different 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. As two major use cases for the UAT include classifying articles and data, 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.