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This wiki is a testing ground for collaborative astronomy vocabulary development, run by Norman Gray, Stuart Chalmers and Iadh Ounis, originally as part of the Explicator project (see http://explicator.dcs.gla.ac.uk/).

If you have any queries about using this site, or would like to add your own astronomy vocabulary, please contact us.

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= Why use this site? =

A good question! There are many examples of vocabularies already in use (e.g. http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/Vocabularies/vocabularies-20090825/IVOAT/dict/A.html), but there are a number of advantages to editing using Semantic Mediawiki as a basis for developing new ones, or hosting vocabularies already developed:


 * Collaborative Development : The wiki ethos means that any collaborator can edit vocabularies, and these edits are fully traceable and assignable to that collaborator. It offers much more in terms of collaboration than a static web presence.


 * Semantics : The vocabularies here can be edited then exported using a structured, machine-readable semantic represenatation. There is no need to have the web representation of the vocabulary separate from the machine understandable version. A semantic mediawiki provides you with both - you can immediately get access to a structured machine-readable version of your updated vocabulary.


 * In-depth search : We can search intelligently over data held in the wiki and query data like you would a database. For example, "find me all terms narrower than 'Arith'". Go to the Special:Ask page (click here:Special:Ask) and enter Narrower::Arith - the search results can be exported in a number of formats, or even embedded and re-used in your own wiki pages.


 * Lots more....

= A note about the IVOA Vocabularies =

This site is also a testing ground for the semantic representations of the vocabularies in the IVOA: http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/Vocabularies.html

It currently contains versions of 5 IVOA vocabularies:

* The UCD1+ Vocabulary * The 1993 IAU Thesaurus * IVOA Thesaurus * Vocabulary for Astronomy & Astrophysics Journal keywords (Version 1.0) * The list of AOIM keywords in VOcabulary format (Version 1.0)

See the full list of Vocabularies here: Category:Vocabulary