VO or VObs
Ray Plante
rplante at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mon Jun 7 20:11:29 PDT 2004
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Wil O'Mullane wrote:
> 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 ?
I think VO is fine; VObs is fine, also. The main thing for our standard
documents is that any abbreviation must be spelled out in its first
usage--as is "Virtual Observatory (VO)". There are few things more
annoying to the conscientious outsider than undefined jargon.
cheers,
Ray
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