New Update ObsCore1.1 WD / prototype for use-cases examples

[Patrick Dowler]

I think the "xel" comes from pixel and voxel... without implying any
specific dimensionality.



On 11 March 2016 at 08:50, Laurent Michel
<laurent.michel at astro.unistra.fr> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> There was many discussions about the choice of this suffix.
> As it can represents various elment types we looked for a name not referring
> to any usual quantity. Thus npix or ndim have been discarded. The 2 last
> candidates were _xel and _nel and we finally kept _xel. I couldn't remember
> why.
> As your request for changing it is not very strong and according to the fact
> that Pat already have an implementation, I would suggest to keep it as it
> is.
>
> Laurent
>
>
> Le 09/03/2016 12:39, Mark Taylor a écrit :
>>
>> Dear DM,
>>
>> I don't have a strong interest in ObsCore, but skimming it
>> I have one comment.
>>
>> The name of the new model entries *_xel, designating number of
>> elements along a given axis, seems a bit strange to me.
>> If I saw an item named t_nel I'd guess that it means number of
>> elements, but t_xel sounds mysterious.  Is there a good reason
>> for this name?  It's not a big deal, and if this is already
>> written in to existing implementations I'm not seriously suggesting
>> changing it, but if it's still easy to change it might be worth
>> reconsidering.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Louys Mireille wrote:
>>
>>> Dear DAL and DM members ,
>>>
>>> The new release for The ObsCore1.1/ObsTAP specification is now on line at
>>> http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ObsCoreDMvOnedotOne
>>>
>>> in the pdf version : WD-ObsCore-v1.1-20160224.pdf
>>>
>>> <http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/ObsCoreDMvOnedotOne/WD-ObsCore-v1.1-20160224.pdf>
>>> this is an update of the recent uploaded  version  and will soon be on
>>> the
>>> Document repository .
>>>
>>> The Working Group review period starts*is running from 14 th of February
>>> till
>>> 15th of March*.
>>>
>>> Updated sections and changes will be easy to spot in this version: they
>>> are
>>> printed in colors : green , purple and red.
>>> See also the "Changes" section.
>>>
>>> Eager to read your comments , and suggestions either on the DM list or on
>>> the
>>> wiki page.
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>> Mireille Louys , on behalf of Laurent Michel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
>> m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-9288776  http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/
>>
>
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Patrick Dowler
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
Victoria, BC, Canada