Releases: astrothesaurus/UAT
UAT v5.1.0
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus v.5.1.0 Release Notes Summary
Version 5.1.0 of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus consists of a polyhierarchy with 2275 concepts, 11 top concepts, a depth of 11 levels, with 692 related concept links.
Release Date: 06/20/2024
Overview of Changes
- Deprecated 1 concepts.
- The preferred label of 2 concepts were updated to add context, clarity, and consistency.
- Added or updated AltLabels for 4 concepts.
- Edited 7 definitions.
- Resolves Issues in Milestone Release 5.1.0.
Detailed List of Changes
For a detailed list of changes see full release notes.
UAT v.5.0.0
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus v.5.0.0 Release Notes Summary
Version 5.0.0 of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus consists of a polyhierarchy with 2276 concepts, 11 top concepts, a depth of 11 levels, with 692 related concept links.
Release Date: 06/30/2022
Overview of Changes
- Added 157 new concepts, with alternate labels, related links, an example, and definition.
- New concepts in Laboratory astrophysics, Planetary science, as well as new concepts scattered throughout to support astronomy education.
- Resolves Issues in Milestone 5.0.0 UAT Release.
Detailed List of Changes
For a detailed list of changes see full release notes.
UAT v.4.2.0
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus v.4.2.0 Release Notes Summary
Version 4.2.0 of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus consists of a polyhierarchy with 2123 concepts, 11 top concepts, a depth of 11 levels, with 658 related concept links.
Release Date: 01/07/2022
Overview of Changes
- Added en-GB language PrefLabels to 42 concepts.
- Added 1 new concept, with alternate labels, related links, an example, and definition.
- Updated alternate labels and definition for 1 concept.
- Resolves Issues in Milestone 4.2.0 UAT Release.
Detailed List of Changes
For a detailed list of changes see full release notes.
UAT v.4.0.1
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus v.4.0.1 Release Notes Summary
Version 4.0.1 of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus consists of a polyhierarchy with 2122 concepts, 11 top concepts, a depth of 11 levels, with 656 related concept links.
Release Date: 03/31/2021
Overview of Changes
- Definitions of three concepts modified.
- Removed alt label from three concepts.
- Removed defintion from one concept.
- Resolves Issues in Milestone 4.0.1 UAT Release.
Detailed List of Changes
For a detailed list of changes see full release notes.
UAT v.4.0.0
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus v.4.0.0 Release Notes Summary
Version 4.0.0 of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus consists of a polyhierarchy with 2122 concepts, 11 top concepts, a depth of 11 levels, with 656 related concept links.
Release Date: 12/18/2020
Overview of Changes
- Five files added to repository:
- UAT_deprecatedConcepts.rdf - contains all deprecated UAT concepts
- UAT_skosnotes.rdf - contains definition provenance and "use instead" redirects for deprecated concepts
- UAT.json - Now expanded to include all concept information
- UAT_simple.json - Simplified version of the above, only includes parent/child relationships
- UAT_list.json - Flattened list of UAT concepts, with all information, useful for quick lookups if you know the URI
- One folder added to repository:
- Previous UAT Versions - contains zipped packages of all previous UAT releases
- Update and expansion of Planetary science branch.
- Added 52 new concepts.
- Deprecated 27 concepts.
- The preferred label of 18 concepts were updated to add context, clarity, and consistency.
- Added or updated AltLabels for 114 concepts, removed AltLabels for 15 concepts.
- Added definitions to 854 concepts, scope notes to 14 concepts, and examples to 9 concepts
- About 40% of UAT concepts now have definitions, more expected in the next release.
- Added 72 new related links, removed 2 related links.
- Resolves Issues in Milestone 2020 UAT Release.
Detailed List of Changes
For a detailed list of changes see full release notes.
UAT v.3.1.0
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus v.3.1.0 Release Notes Summary
Version 3.1.0 of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus consists of a polyhierarchy with 2097 concepts, 11 top concepts, a depth of 11 levels, with 586 related concept links.
Release Date: 12/20/2019
Overview of Changes
- Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct has been added.
- Minor revisions of two branches:
- Gravitational lensing
- Comets
- Added 54 new concepts.
- Deprecated 7 concepts.
- The preferred label of 18 concepts were updated to add context, clarity, and consistency.
- Added or updated AltLabels for 51 concepts, remove AltLabels for 4 concepts.
- Added 1 definition and 4 scope notes.
- Added 52 new related links, removed 8 related links.
- Resolves Issues in Milestone Colrada.
For a detailed list of changes see full release notes.
UAT v.3.0.0
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus v.3.0.0 Release Notes Summary
Version 3.0.0 of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus consists of a polyhierarchy with 2050 concepts, 11 top concepts, a depth of 11 levels, with 534 related concept links.
Release Date: 9/21/2018
Overview of Changes
- Added 3 new branches:
-- Astrostatistics
-- Laboratory astrophysics
-- Astronomy software - Major revisions of various branches:
-- Stellar astronomy
-- Solar physics
-- Computational astornomy - 258 new concepts were added to the UAT.
- 51 concepts were deprecated.
- The preferred label of 88 concepts were updated to add context, clarity, and consistency.
- Added or updated AltLabels for 196 concepts, remove AltLabels for 34 concepts.
- Added 8 definitions, 15 scope notes, and 1 example.
- Removed 20 related links, added 242 new related links.
- Resolves Issues in Milestone Baerlon, Milestone Stellar types reorganization, and Milestone Solar physics updates
For a detailed list of changes see full release notes.
UAT v.2.0.0
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus v.2.0.0 Release Notes
Version 2.0.0 of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus consists of a polyhierarchy with 1843 concepts, 11 top concepts, a depth of 10 levels, with 320 related concept links.
Release Date: 1/31/2017
Overview of Changes
- The UAT was switched from descriptive, human readable concept identifiers to numeric identifiers. This is a rather significant change, and included in the source code download for this version is a mapping from previous identifiers to new identifiers.
- The preferred label of 79 concepts were updated to add context, clarity, and consistency.
- 16 new concepts were added to the UAT.
- 3 concepts were moved from one parent concept to another.
- 9 concepts were merged into similar concepts to remove duplicates from the UAT.
- Resolves Issues in Milestone Arinelle.
Detailed List of Changes
Updated the preferred label of 79 concepts:
| Concept URI | Old PrefLabel | New PrefLabel |
|---|---|---|
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/3 | A dwarfs | A dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/4 | A giants | A giant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/6 | A subdwarfs | A subdwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/7 | A subgiants | A subgiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/8 | A supergiants | A supergiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/13 | Accreting binaries | Accreting binary stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/126 | B dwarfs | B dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/127 | B giants | B giant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/129 | B subdwarfs | B subdwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/130 | B supergiants | B supergiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/146 | Beryllium | Beryllium abundance |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/168 | Blue stragglers | Blue straggler stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/176 | Boron | Boron abundance |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/185 | Brown dwarfs | Brown dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/197 | Carbon flash | Carbon flashes |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/218 | Cepheids | Cepheid variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/237 | Circumstellar envelope | Circumstellar envelopes |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/299 | Convective envelope | Convective envelopes |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/301 | Convective zone | Convective zones |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/402 | Double-mode Cepheids | Double-mode Cepheid variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/414 | Dust shell | Dust shells |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/431 | Early-type supergiants | Early-type supergiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/476 | Eruptive variables | Eruptive variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/516 | F dwarfs | F dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/517 | F giants | F giant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/520 | F subdwarfs | F subdwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/521 | F subgiants | F subgiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/522 | F supergiants | F supergiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/553 | FU Orionis | FU Orionis stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/556 | G dwarfs | G dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/557 | G giants | G giant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/559 | G subdwarfs | G subdwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/561 | G supergiants | G supergiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/713 | Helium | Helium abundance |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/876 | K dwarfs | K dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/877 | K giants | K giant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/879 | K subdwarfs | K subdwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/880 | K subgiants | K subgiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/881 | K supergiants | K supergiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/894 | L dwarfs | L dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/896 | L subdwarfs | L subdwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/908 | Late type giant stars | Late-type giant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/906 | Late-type dwarfs | Late-type dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/908 | Late-type giants | Late type giant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/910 | Late-type supergiants | Late-type supergiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/926 | Lithium | Lithium abundance |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/935 | Long period variables | Long period variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/982 | M dwarfs | M dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/983 | M giants | M giant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/986 | M subdwarfs | M subdwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/987 | M subgiants | M subgiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/988 | M supergiants | M supergiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1067 | Mira variables | Mira variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1135 | O dwarfs | O dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1136 | O giants | O giant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1138 | O subdwarfs | O subdwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1139 | O supergiants | O supergiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1142 | OB supergiants | OB supergiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1311 | PV Telescopii variables | PV Telescopii variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1327 | R Coronae Borealis variables | R Coronae Borealis variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1372 | Red giants | Red giant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1374 | Red stragglers | Red straggler stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1375 | Red supergiants | Red supergiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1407 | Rotating shell | Rotating shells |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1416 | RS Canum Venaticorum variables | RS Canum Venaticorum variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1418 | RV Tauri variables | RV Tauri variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1466 | Slow irregular variables | Slow irregular variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1605 | Stellar inner core | Stellar inner cores |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1606 | Stellar interior | Stellar interiors |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1631 | Stellar structure | Stellar structures |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1648 | Substellar companions | Substellar companion stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1672 | SX Arietis variables | SX Arietis variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1673 | SX Phoenicis variables | SX Phoenicis variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1679 | T dwarfs | T dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1680 | T subdwarfs | T subdwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1782 | VY Sculpturis | VY Sculpturis stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1784 | W Virginis variables | W Virginis variable stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1799 | White dwarfs | White dwarf stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1832 | Young disk Cepheids | Young disk Cepheid variable stars |
Added 16 new concepts:
| New Concept URI | New Concept PrefLabel |
|---|---|
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/37 | Amorphous irregular galaxies |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/125 | B subgiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/163 | Blank field |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/165 | Blue compact dwarf galaxies |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/281 | Compact dwarf galaxies |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/0 | DC stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1849 | DQ stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1848 | DZ stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/484 | Exoplanet systems |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/737 | High latitude field |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/940 | Low surface brightness galaxies |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1132 | O subgiant stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1198 | Parallel field |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1850 | Shell stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1565 | Star forming regions |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1827 | Y dwarf stars |
Moved 3 concepts to new locations within the hierarchy:
| Concept URI | Concept PrefLabel | Old Parent PrefLabel | New Parent PrefLabel |
|---|---|---|---|
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/895 | L galaxies | Galaxies | Low surface brightness galaxies |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1410 | RR Lyrae variable stars | Population II Cepheid stars | Population II stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1734 | Ultracompact dwarf galaxies | Dwarf galaxies | Compact dwarf galaxies |
Merged 9 duplicate concepts:
| Concept URI | Concept PrefLabel | Duplicate Concept PrefLabel |
|---|---|---|
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/242 | Circumstellar Shells | Circumstellar Shell |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/529 | Far infrared astronomy | Far-infrared astronomy |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/553 | FU Orionis stars | FU Orionis |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/935 | Long period variable stars | Long period variables |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/944 | Luminous blue variable stars | Luminous blue variables |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1066 | Mira variable stars | Mira variables |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1104 | Neutrino oscillations | Neutrino oscillation |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1327 | R Coronae Borealis variable stars | R Coronae Borealis stars |
| http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1444 | Semi-regular variable stars | Semiregular variables |
UAT v.1.1.0
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus v.1.1.0 Release Notes
Version 1.1.0 of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus consists of a polyhierarchy with 1836 concepts, 11 top concepts, a depth of 10 levels, with 329 related concept links.
Original Release Date: 7/10/2016
Overview of Changes
URI structure underwent major restructuring. Concept IDs are now descriptive and the URIs themselves are based at astrothesaurus.org.
UAT v.1.0.0
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus v.1.0.0 Release Notes
Version 1.0.0 of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus consists of a polyhierarchy with 1836 concepts, 11 top concepts, a depth of 10 levels, with 319 related concept links.
Original Release Date: 12/23/2015
Overview of Changes
Complete restructure and overhaul of the UAT to bring it's organizational structure into closer to agreement with IAU divisions.
Removed Top Concepts:
Astronomical objects
Astrophysical magnetism
Celestial mechanics
Equipment and apparatus
Galactic physics
Lunar physics
Methods and techniques
Nuclear astrophysics
Planetary science
Positional astronomy
Space exploration
Stellar physics
Added Top Concepts:
Astrophysical processes
Exoplanet astronomy
Galactic and extragalactic astronomy
High energy astrophysics
Interstellar medium
Solar astronomy
Solar system astronomy
Stellar astronomy
Major change in concept URI structure.