Baltimore Interop preparation

[Juan de Dios Santander Vela]

El 10/09/2008, a las 20:42, Mireille Louys escribió:

> I envisage several topics to be discussed, among which :
>
> * Atomic and molecular lines DM
> * Utypes
> * Observation & Provenance data model

Hi, Mireille, I would like to present how we have dealt with  
Provenance for the IRAM 30m antenna archive, and also the DSS-63  
antenna archive.

> * STC implementation : the need to design a library

There was an announcement on the current work on implementing the STC  
library by Arnold Rots on August 12th, 2008, at 20:55 CEST:

> This functionality will certainly be included in the STC library.
> At some point I looked to see whether I could create a style sheet,
> but the schema is such that a style sheet would be extremely
> complicated. I may try a simpler version again, but give no garantees.

Is this effort separate from what you are proposing?

> Feel free to suggest other items and give feed back for these.


One issue I have, and might be shared with other researchers, but it  
is specially acute for people starting their scientific careers, is  
the status of IVOA publications. I believe that at least talks with  
ADS people should be started so that IVOA Notes, Working Drafts, and  
Recommendations finally can make their way into ADS, with bibcodes of  
their own (for instance, yyyytttttIVON....0S for IVOA notes,  
yyyytttttIVOP....0S for IVOA Proposed Recommendations, and  
yyyytttttIVOR....0S for IVOA Recommendations, where yyyy is year of  
proposal, ttttt are five characters selected from initials in the  
title, padded with periods (.), and S is the initial of the surname  
for the first author). Igor raised a similar concern when he asked a  
few months ago how to cite IVOA standards...

As bibcode references can be part of different fields in different  
data models, I believe this is something which can benefit also the  
self-documentation of protocol output.

I would also like to raise the fact that part of the semantics in IVOA  
Data Models, specially for variable parts, or information not usually  
accessible, must not rely just on UCDs and UTypes, but on Ontology  
elements using the nascent IVOA Thesaurus. We are using such an  
extension to identify fields with too generic or different to find UCDs.

-- 
Juan de Dios Santander Vela
Diplomado en CC. Físicas, Ingeniero en Electrónica
Doctorando en Tecnologías Multimedia
Becario Predoctoral del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: No hay libro tan malo que no contenga  
algo bueno.