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Considerations on the importance of building a national astronomical glossary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2021

Hidehiko Agata Open the ORCID record for Hidehiko Agata [Opens in a new window]
Hidehiko Agata*
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Children in elementary and middle school learn fundamental concepts of science in their local language. There seems to be some discrepancies between what they learn in school and up-to-date terminologies because academic terminologies are usually updated and shared only in English by each specific academic society. We introduce the online dictionary called as “The Internet Encyclopedia of Astronomy” compiled and provided by the Astronomical Society of Japan as an efficient solution for such terminology problem.

Keywords

sociology of astronomyglossarytechnical terms
Type
Poster Paper
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 15 , Symposium S367: Education and Heritage in the Era of Big Data in Astronomy , December 2019 , pp. 442 - 443
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Astronomical Union

References

Okamura, S., Agata, H., & Handa, T., 2018, The Astronomical Herald, 111, 601 Google Scholar
ASJ, 2018, The Internet Encyclopedia of Astronomy, http://astro-dic.jp/Google Scholar