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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dear IVOA Members , <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">when reviewing the
SODA specification, I noticed that the Filtering Parameters
section (3.3) uses UCD terms that <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">convey relatively wide
semantics.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">the UCD list has been
enriched and new UCD terms could be used instead . <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">this would change Table
4 in the following and the related text of section 3.3 : <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Name UCD
Unit Semantics<br>
ID meta.ref.url;meta.curation cf.
sect. 3.2.1<br>
CIRCLE </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#cc0000">pos.outline</font><font
color="#cc0000">;</font>obs deg cf.
sect. 3.3.2<br>
POLYGON </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Times New
Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Times New Roman, Times,
serif" color="#cc0000">pos.outline</font><font
color="#cc0000">;</font></font></font>obs
deg cf. sect. 3.3.3<br>
POS </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times,
serif"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#cc0000">pos.outline</font><font
color="#cc0000">;</font></font>obs
cf. sect. 3.3.1<br>
BAND em.wl<font color="#cc0000">;stat.interval</font>
cf. sect. 3.3.4<br>
TIME time.interval;obs.exposure d cf. sect.
3.3.5<br>
POL meta.code;phys.polarization cf.
sect. 3.3.6<br>
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<pre><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Table 4: Three-Factor Semantics for standard SODA parameters</font></pre>
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Thanks, Mireille<br>
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