VO or VObs

[Tony Linde]

I don't think it matters too much. As with Guy, I use VObs in case stuff I
write gets read outside of this community and VO when I want to refer to a
Virtual Organisation specifically. 

> You don't have to give any explanation, we are actually lucky 
> since our our Virtual Organization is called Virtual Observatory. 

I'm not sure they're exactly equivalent. The VObs encompasses everything in
the world of astronomy (or will do) which is probably more than what is
meant by the concept of a VO.

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-interop at eso.org [mailto:owner-interop at eso.org] On 
> Behalf Of Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban
> Sent: 07 June 2004 20:26
> To: Guy Rixon
> Cc: Wil O'Mullane; interop at ivoa.net
> Subject: Re: VO or VObs
> 
> In my modest opinion ....
> 
> On Mon, 7
> Jun 2004, Guy Rixon wrote:
> 
> > I started using VObs instead of VO because much of what I 
> write goes 
> > eventually to grid audiences. They think VO means Virtual 
> > Organization. I got bored with having to explain the terms.
> 
> You don't have to give any explanation, we are actually lucky 
> since our our Virtual Organization is called Virtual Observatory. 
> 
> > Inside IVOA, I don't care whether we use VO or VObs.
> 
> Now that everything is called VOServices, VOTable, VOList, 
> VOSpace, VOApplications, IVOA, etc., changing the name to 
> Vobs will bring only unnecessary confusion.
> 
> Maria
> 
> > Vobs makes better wiki-words than VO, mind.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Guy
> > 
> > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Wil O'Mullane wrote:
> > 
> > > I see the use of VO for Virtual Observatory (I use it myself) but 
> > > also I notice (particulalry our AstroGrid colleques) use  
> VObs for 
> > > Virtual observatory
> > >
> > > Do we have one we should use in our IVOA documents ? In 
> particular I 
> > > wish to do the next draft of VOSupportInterfaces but 
> should that be 
> > > VObsSupportInterfaces as Guy names it ?
> > >
> > > wil
> > >
> > 
> > Guy Rixon 				        gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk
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