Deliverables (was: IAU thesaurus in RDF (an update))

[Norman Gray]

Rob, hello.

On 2007 Oct 9, at 05:20, Rob Seaman wrote:

> Rick wrote:
>
>> The present IAU/IVOA list is already too large to be handled easily
>
> Perhaps we should just start with the IAU Thesaurus SKOS'ed  
> verbatim?  (With errata, I suppose?)  The initial VOEvent namespace  
> (that we actually need) would then be the SV with terms from the  
> Thesaurus removed.  Call these both v1.0, with the obvious intent  
> of updating them down the road.

I heartily agree (though with some reservations about the term 'SV',  
which still seems to mean different things to different people).

I think, in fact, that we should SKOSify everything in sight, and  
only then worry about what to do next.

I have already seen near-deliverable quality SKOS versions of the  
A&A, AOIM and IAU vocabularies (both from Rick and from Alasdair  
Gray), and I presume Rick has or could promptly produce a similar  
version of this VOEvent vocabulary.  In addition, Rick has elaborated  
the labels and identified UCD equivalences for at least two of these  
that I know of.  Plus, I can see at least the preparatory work to  
produce SKOSified UCD and HOU vocabularies.

That's four to eight products _right now_.  How about doing final  
tidying, doing some namespace housekeeping, and adding some  
commentary in the form of an IVOA WG Note in at most a month from  
now.  Bingo!

The URL of the Note could act as the base namespace for all the  
produced vocabularies (this appears to be standard practice).

With a Note in place, we have a fixed target for us and others to  
criticise, and can then discuss what further standardisation is  
actually required, and either produce that, or simply promote the  
Note to a WD.

I'll volunteer to do any necessary writing or editing.

All the best,

Norman


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