[Voevent-core] Fwd: standard vocabulary

[Roy Williams]

>
>>>> I tried to express the idea of a GRB, and I came up with  
>>>> process.variation.burst; em.gamma
>>>
>>> Could Andrea or Rick (or anybody else) comment on why the latter  
>>> should be preferred over simply "GRB" as a class identifier?

To me, it is the flexibility. If you know how to talk about a burst  
in the gamma, now you know how to do it in the X-ray as well:
	process.variation.burst;em.X-ray

I suppose you could also call it a "XB", but I'm sure anyone would  
understand....
Roy


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