This repository contains a collection of NASA thesauri, dictionaries, taxonomies, and related documents, as well as a Python script to load concepts from a SKOS file.

What You'll Find Here

• Dictionaries
  • Acronyms
    • Acronym Dictionary from the NASA Center for AeroSpace Information
    • Human Space Flight acronym finder
    • Johnson Space Center (JSC) "Acronym Central"
    • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) list of acronyms
  • Concepts of Mathematics for Students of Physics and Engineering: A Dictionary by Joseph C. Kolecki
  • Planetary Data System Data Dictionary
• Taxonomies
  • NASA Taxonomy 2.0
• Thesauri
  • NASA Thesaurus
• Python script
  • bin/load_terms_from_skos.py
  • requirements.txt

Installation of Python Environment

There are any number of ways to set up your python environment to use this code. My preferred one (described below) is using virtualenv.

# clone this repository to your local machine
git clone https://github.com/nasa/dictionaries.git

# switch to the local repository dir
cd dictionaries

# install virtualenv environment for python3
virtualenv -p <python_3_exe> ./env

# activate your environment
source lib/bin/activate.sh

# install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt

#add aggregate dictionary code to python path
# there are many ways to do this, but for example
# for the bash shell on MacOS/Linux the command is:
export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`