Data/metadata

[David Berry]

I know that Jonathan McDowell (with various others including me) has been
working towards producing draft proposals for the Quantity and Observation
models discussed at Strasbourg. The last I heard was that the Quantity
document was just about ready for wider circulation (like in the next day
or two), and Observation was coming on well.

David


On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Tony Linde wrote:

> I just read the following on the wiki: 'Summary of convergence efforts for
> Observation in various data models, which come from different points of view
> e.g. archive vs analysis tools. A number of data models have been considered
> so far, and these show areas of similarities.'
>
> Has there been any work on consolidating these models to a single one or has
> any single model become the standard? I understand that IDHA has been used
> as the metadata model for CDS VizieR data: can this be used to quickly
> develop an agreed metadata model for the VO?
>
> (Apologies if this has already been discussed and decided: point me at the
> relevant thread if so.)
>

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