The NASA Image Collection Visual Thesaurus
Mark E. Rorvig, C. H. Turner, James Andrés Barrera Moncada · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 1999
This article is an unpublished manuscript of a paper presented at the 17th Annual Mid-Year Meeting of the American Society for Information Science at Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 15–18, 1988. It is the first recorded proposal for visual support of indexing. The system itself was built and deployed at NASA in the Johnson Space Center Image Archives from 1989 to 1992.