TN on Ontology

[Andrea Preite Martinez]

I'm glad to announce that a Technical Note

"Ontology of Astronomical Object Types" V0.1

is now available on the twiki page of the Semantics WG, together with  
the complete
Javadoc documentation (formats .zip or tar.gz) of the draft ontology.
Comments and contributions are warmly welcome.

It is worth noting that the ontology is made of "defined" concepts,  
and only a fraction
of them has been defined, for the moment only in terms of components  
and/or morphology
and/or processes.
Nothing yet has been done in terms of observational properties. Work  
is in progress.

I then ask for the contribution of the members of the WG and of the  
scientific community
to help finding the necessary and/or sufficient conditions to define  
the concepts (what
is needed is a complete but concise description in plain text of the  
concepts in terms of
components and/or morphology and/or physical processes and/or  
observational properties
and/or ..).

Andrea

P.S.: the end of RFC period for the PR UCDlist version 1.2 is approaching!



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