Spectral DM VOTable serializaiton issues

[Doug Tody]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Nausicaa Delmotte wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
>
> Doug Tody wrote:
>  >     https://webtest.aoc.nrao.edu/ivoa-dal/ssap-keywords.xls
>
>
> I had a quick look to this very useful spreadsheet and it would be nice
>   to have also a column 'Example value'.

This is a good suggestion.  The original motivation for the spreadsheet
was for code generation (so I wouldn't have to keep typing this stuff
in), but as documentation, an example value field would be good to have
as well.


> Doug Tody wrote:
> > I would love to see the list of UCDs filled out as well.  We might be
> > able to make some headway on this ourselves, but if the Semantics WG
> > folks could help that would be even better.
> >
> > We talked about doing just this back at the ADASS, but nothing ever came
> > of it.  Maybe those glaring empty spaces in my spreadsheet will motivate
> > someone to work on this.
>
>
> Regarding the UCDs, I would suggest:
>
> UTypes             UCD
>
> Axis.Name          meta.id
>
> Axis.Ucd           meta.ucd;[pos|spect|time]
>
> Axis.Unit          meta.unit;[pos|spect|time]
>
> StatError          stat.error;em (instead of em;stat.error since
>                     stat.error is a primary word and em a secondary one)
>
>                     Same thing for error on phot.flux, time and pos.eq
>
>
> SysError           stat.error.sys;em (same as above)
>
> SpatialLocation    pos.eq is only a secondary word (though pos.eq.ra
>                     and pos.eq.dec could be primary or secondary)
>
> Access.Format      meta.code.mime
>
> Spectrum.Length    meta.number;spect
>
> Target.Description meta.note;src

Very helpful, thanks.

	- Doug