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

[François Bonnarel]

Le 11/03/2016 21:05, Patrick Dowler a écrit :
> I think the "xel" comes from pixel and voxel... without implying any
> specific dimensionality.
Correct, that was the discussion
Cheers
François

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> On 11 March 2016 at 08:50, Laurent Michel
> <laurent.michel at astro.unistra.fr> wrote:
>> Mark,
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>> 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.
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>> Laurent
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>> Le 09/03/2016 12:39, Mark Taylor a écrit :
>>> Dear DM,
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>>> I don't have a strong interest in ObsCore, but skimming it
>>> I have one comment.
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>>> 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
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>>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Louys Mireille wrote:
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>>>> 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
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>>>> in the pdf version : WD-ObsCore-v1.1-20160224.pdf
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>>>> <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 .
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>>>> The Working Group review period starts*is running from 14 th of February
>>>> till
>>>> 15th of March*.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> Eager to read your comments , and suggestions either on the DM list or on
>>>> the
>>>> wiki page.
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>>>> Many thanks
>>>> Mireille Louys , on behalf of Laurent Michel
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>>> --
>>> 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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>> jesuischarlie
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>> Laurent Michel
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