VO or VObs

[Peter Quinn]

Hi

    For consistency I would like that we stick to "VO" for the "official"
IVOA stuff ..

    thanks

    Peter


On 7/6/04 21:54, "Tony Linde" <ael at star.le.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
>>>> 
>>> 
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