Terms

[Tony Linde]

And I've sketched a very rough model which shows how (little) I understand
the entities and their relationships (attached and on the wiki page).

T. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org] 
> On Behalf Of Tony Linde
> Sent: 09 December 2004 18:56
> To: registry at ivoa.net
> Subject: RE: Terms
> 
> 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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