2018/01/03 by Katie Frey, Alberto Accomazzi · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Computer Science · #astro-ph.IM #cs.DL
paper · pdf · doi:10.3847/1538-4365/aab760
Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Supplements, 10 pages, 3 tables
arxiv created 2018/01/03 · arxiv updated 2018/05/23
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.