Astrophysique

18/06/2019

Sharing and re-using open data: A case study of motivations in astrophysics

« This study sought to provide in-depth insight about the complex interaction of factors influencing motivations for sharing and re-using open research data within a single discipline, namely astrophysics. We identified the following research questions.
1. What discipline-specific characteristics influence motivation for sharing and re-using open research data?
2.…

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27/02/2015

Persistent, Global Identity for Scientists via ORCID

Authors: August E. Evrard, Christopher Erdmann, Jane Holmquist, James Damon, Dianne Dietrich

« Scientists have an inherent interest in claiming their contributions to the scholarly record, but the fragmented state of identity management across the landscape of astronomy, physics, and other fields makes highlighting the contributions of any…

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11/04/2014

The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus – Alberto Accomazzi, Norman Gray, Chris Erdmann, Chris Biemesderfer, Katie Frey, Justin Soles (.pdf)

« Abstract. The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) is an open, interoperable and community-supported thesaurus which unifies the existing divergent and isolated Astronomy & Astrophysics vocabularies into a single high-quality, freely-available open thesaurus formalizing astronomical concepts and their inter-relationships. The UAT builds upon the existing IAU Thesaurus with major contributions from the astronomy portions…

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