Converging the Data Models

[Francois Bonnarel]

Dear all,
   About the new char schema provided by Jonathan.

    As Mireille and I wrote to Jonathan in private the good thing with
that schema is that it is simple, human readable and that every element
has a specific name in characterization, although the xml types could
be eventually imported from Quantity or STC. This allows that charecterization 
utypes keep simple and clearly identified as char, for eg use in SIA 1.1!

    I have a few remarks on details, however.
   1) sampling_precision   ---> ScalarSize
     If I understood well the evolution from Arnold's STC to JOntahan's
repeated in this char  version, ScalarSize is coming from CoordSize and 
the STC document explains that it is more for FOV, than pixel size ore
sampling. But there is a ScalarPixSize. We should use that one, should'nt we ?

    2) Why does FrameType contain an element like this
         <xsd:element ref="cha:float"/>
       and not (like in Quantity) <xsd:element name="type" type="cha:floatType"
      which identify a specific dataType description in the Frame.

    3) Why do we need cha:type to be defined as an extension of string?
   Actually this is a question for Quantity? why do we need value cellType
to be an extension of string? instead of xsd:float,xsd:integer, ...
In the case of "char"   Float  would be sufficient,no?

    4) IntervalListTYpe:
     If lo_include, hi_include, fill_factor are really important things
for the Interval like the filling factor, why is it attroibutes and not
elements? What is the genearal policy for elements versus attributes in
the IVOA schema? Isn't attribute for a "service" parameter?
     By the way I have a general proposal which I know Jonathan doesn't like
very much, but it is really a "service attribute" proposal.
    Elements in IVOA schema should allow a Utype (or DMHyperlink) attribute
and a ucd attribute.
    Utypes would be  for references to not totally consistent Data Models
(eg IVOA characterization references into Simple Spectrum, or different
schema versions)
    Ucds attributes would be for the concept associated to the element name
This is NOT the same that the ucd element in FRame for example.
    the ucd element in ScalarResolution will tell us which axis we are dealing
with (spatial,temporal,etc...)
    the ucd attribute for ScalarResolution will be the UCD1+ for Resolution
(sorry I don't remember!)
    
Regards to all
François

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Francois   Bonnarel               Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg
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