discussion in Edinburgh

[derriere at newb6.u-strasbg.fr]

   Hi all,

     Norman Gray, Tony Linde, Andrea Preite-Martinez,
  Alexandre Richard and myself had a semantics discussion
  during the VOTech meeting taking place this week in
  Edinburgh. Here are the conclusion from our chatting:

     SKOS fulfills our needs/requirements concerning the
  vocabulary:
     * It is easy to produce SKOSed versions of the main
      existing astronomical vocabularies (IAU, HOU, ...)
      (and in some cases it's already done)
     * SKOS is almost plain-text (which is a good thing
     for an easy to maintain vocabulary masterfile)

     Therefore, we would like to write an IVOA note saying
  which is the format for vocabularies (SKOS), and ask
  for contributors to this note.
     Existing SKOSified vocabularies could be included in
  the note as examples.

SD, NG, TL, APM & AR