Terms

[Tony Linde]

I've created a wiki page where we can document terms and their definitions
as a start for the model:
  http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/viewauth/IVOA/RegistryModel

T.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org] 
> On Behalf Of Tony Linde
> Sent: 09 December 2004 18:34
> To: registry at ivoa.net
> Subject: Terms
> 
> One of the problems we have is that we're all using different 
> terms for the same things (or vice versa). Can someone (Roy?) 
> provide us with a reasonable glossary of entities that we 
> need to look at and quickie definitions. From just today's 
> threads, we can see:
> 
>  data centre (or center)
>  service
>  interface
>  data collection
>  dataset (which I think is just my term for data collection)  
> database  table  mirror  copy  application  function (as in 
> what an app does)
> 
> Any other terms we need to add?
> 
> I've left out 'resource' deliberately - it is a somewhat 
> loaded term. And I've tried to keep to the higher level 
> entities at this stage.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tony. 
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