VO or VObs

[Fabio Pasian]

Hi all,

I agree with Peter and Dave. VO should be used internally for consistence
and in all our interactions with the astronomy community. Occasionally, we
have contacts with the Grid community, or write papers describing the VO on
IT journals. In such cases, VObs could be used (once properly defined in its
first usage - as Ray suggests) not to confuse the audience.

Fabio

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Quinn" <pjq at eso.org>
To: "Tony Linde" <ael at star.le.ac.uk>; "'Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban'"
<nieto at skysrv.pha.jhu.edu>; "'Guy Rixon'" <gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: "'Wil O'Mullane'" <womullan at skysrv.pha.jhu.edu>; <interop at ivoa.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: VO or VObs


> 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
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Guy Rixon                         gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk
> >>> Institute of Astronomy                       Tel: +44-1223-337542
> >>> Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK, CB3 0HA        Fax:
> >> +44-1223-337523
> >>>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
>