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New Concept: Engineering #278

Open davidwhogg opened 5 years ago

davidwhogg commented 5 years ago

Name the new concept Engineering

Describe the concept The things we do to make astronomy work.

Describe where the concept fits within the existing hierarchy It would be top-level, I think.

Provide 1-3 supporting articles Grr. Half of all papers by Hogg, D. W.

Please include any additional comments/feedback I think there would be sub-categories like mechanical, operations, electrical, computer.

katieefrey commented 5 years ago

Dr. Hogg, thank you for your suggestion. As you say above, this concept if added would constitute an entire new branch of the UAT, which is a major undertaking and requires significant discussion. My initial reaction is that this branch would be out of scope for the UAT; these concepts could be more suited to an engineering controlled vocabulary, but it could also be valuable to have a focused section of engineering related terms, similar to the newer set of software concepts we added in the last release. I will bring it up with the other members of the UAT committee. If you have additional comments to add in support of this branch that would be helpful.

davidwhogg commented 5 years ago

I'd like to tag AAS-journal papers with keywords like "operations" and "decison-making" and "scheduling" and "software" and "experimental design" and "testing" and "integration" and "calibration" and so on. Will these concepts exist elsewhere in the UAT? As long as they do, its good. Otherwise there is a deep assumption that the tagging of papers is always about purely astronomical concepts, or it is excluding these concepts from being part of astronomy. I think they are a part of astronomy just as much as "black holes" are.

BartlettAstro commented 4 months ago

@davidwhogg would some of these be appropriate as children or grand-children of Astronomical instrumentation http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/799?

Also, would any of the calibration-related concepts proposed in Isssue #37 by @seweissman be helpful to you? They have been spread out into individual issues related to single concepts for consideration. Your opinions on those would be welcome.