[Heig] [Follow-up HEIG meeting ] VEP-UCD how it works ?/ with UCD-VEP template

Mireille Louys mireille.louys at unistra.fr
Sat Apr 25 10:05:49 CEST 2026


Dear HEIG,

Here is the summary of what I have shown about how we can request a new 
UCD for a table column .

You will need to clarify your need , and write a VEP-UCD file to explain 
your request. (VEP means Vocabulary Enhancement Protocol)

The history of the requested terms is hosted by the IVOA Semantics group 
at https://voparis-gitlab.obspm.fr/vespa/ivoa-standards/semantics/vep-ucd

For HEIG to discuss the terms' changes and addition that we want , I 
suggest we iterate on the VEP-UCD I already wrote ,
from my understanding of our many different discussions ,
but on our gitHub repo: https://github.com/ivoa/HighEnergyObsCoreExt

For new particle types , you can either start from scratch using the 
UCD-VEP-template as example to modify , or
add more terms in the file : /VEP-UCD-26-particle_types.txt/

I have tried to send a pull request to upload  various VEP-UCD files on 
our repo.
It does not support file upload .

as soon as the repo is updated with the various contributions , I'll be 
able to push those files ( I hope).

Thanks , Mireille

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Vocabulary: http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/UCDlist/
Author: V.Delouille at oma.be
Date: 2021-05-04
Nb of terms discussed together : 3

New Term: statistical skewness
Action: Addition
Label: stat.skew
Description:
Rationale:
This term was proposed actually by Veronique Delouille after FITSKeyword evaluation for solar datasets.
Would complete the stat properties within the UCD tree.
Would be useful for other data as well.

Discussion:
<add here reasons and examples of use for this new term >

New Term: statistical kurtosis
Action: Addition
Label: stat.kurtosis
Description:
Rationale:
This term was proposed actually by Veronique Delouille after FITS Keyword evaluation for solar datasets.
Would complete the stat properties within the UCD tree.
Would be useful for other data as well.

Discussion:
<add here reasons and examples of use for this new term >


New Term: statistical Median Absolute Deviation
Action: Addition
Label: stat.mad
Description:
Rationale:
This term was proposed actually by Veronique Delouille after FITS Keyword evaluation for solar datasets
this is a robust quantity to measure the spread of values in a data set when the statistic is not normal
Would complete the stat properties within the UCD tree.
Would be useful for other data as well.

Discussion:
<add here reasons and examples of use for this new term >


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