The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus: Semantic Metadata for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Katie Frey, Alberto Accomazzi
TL;DR
The paper introduces the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT), a comprehensive controlled vocabulary designed to standardize semantic metadata across astronomy and astrophysics, improving classification and discoverability.
Contribution
It presents the development and evaluation of the UAT as a unified, structured vocabulary applicable across the entire discipline, addressing limitations of previous vocabularies.
Findings
UAT covers a broader range of concepts than existing vocabularies.
UAT improves consistency in article and data classification.
Comparison shows UAT's relevance and utility across platforms.
Abstract
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.
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