Vocab AND Ontology?

[Frederic V. Hessman]

Sorry 'bout that - a small bug in my HTML color scheme, now corrected  
so that you should be able to see the dictionary.

Rick

On 4 Oct 2007, at 1:23 pm, Eric Saunders wrote:

> Hi Rick
>
> Amazing looking piece of work! Unfortunately, I can't read the  
> dictionary definitions. They show up as entirely black boxes.  
> Highlighting with the mouse demonstrates there are words there. The  
> page with the problem that I noticed is:
>
> http://www.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~hessman/rdf/ 
> dict.html#accretion
>
> I'm running firefox 2.0.0.6 on Ubuntu Linux, kernel version 2.6.22.
>
> I suspect it may be related to the use of black as the link colour  
> in your CSS?
>
> Cheers
>
> Eric
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Frederic V. Hessman wrote:
>
>> Just in case you have been wondering whether the Vocab/ontology  
>> discussion has petered out, here's my contribution to a concrete  
>> proposal.   Following Norman's re-formatting of the A&A and AOIM  
>> vocabularies into SKOS, a completely re-furbished version of the  
>> IAU thesaurus can be perused at
>>
>> 		http://www.Astro.physik.Uni-Goettingen.DE/~hessman/rdf
>>
>> including
>>
>> 	- a totally reworked, tentatively normative text file, including  
>> corrections, considerable reduction in the number of tokens (via  
>> aliases), re-writing the original upper case tokens in useable  
>> format (including capitalization of names, correct use of hyphens);
>> 	- a SKOS file containing the thesaurus (should be formally  
>> useable); and
>> 	- simple HTML documentation (token list, alias list, dictionary  
>> with comments about major revisions) to make perusal of the  
>> contents more bearable.
>>
>> Yes, the IAU thesaurus is larger than we'd prefer and contains  
>> lots of historical baggage (no, we don't need a token for Ramsden  
>> eyepieces), but it's there, is official, was "easily" extended to  
>> include more modern concepts (e.g. Type Ia supernovae weren't  
>> quite as important in the 80's and so were left out!) and could  
>> just as easily be extended to cover the other things needed by,  
>> e.g., VOEvent.
>>
>> I'm sure we could agree on a better text format to conform to  
>> standard ontology usage, but everything should be self-explanatory.
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> Rick
>>
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>
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> Eric Saunders
> eSTAR Project (http://www.estar.org.uk)
> Astrophysics Group
> University of Exeter

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Dr. Frederic V. Hessman     Hessman at Astro.physik.Uni-Goettingen.DE
Institut für Astrophysik          Tel.  +49-551-39-5052
Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1         Fax +49-551-39-5043
37077 Goettingen                 Room F04-133
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