Theoretical Data UCD Proposal

[Andrea Preite Martinez]

> This is a great example of where the centralized UCD approach is going
> to fail miserably - the IVOA can't possible agree to have a universal
> token for
>
> 	phys.radius.rhocritic.2500
>
> I'm definitely not saying that the theory community doesn't need this
> token, I'm just saying that it shouldn't be the business of a
> centralized IVOA committe to make that decision.

The problem here is not the centralized UCD approach, but (as I said  
to the Thoery IG in Victoria) that most of what they need to describe  
is metadata (or tags for their models).
If the "proposed UCD" is not metadata (i.e., if it is the description  
of the result of the calculation, equivalent to a physical quantity  
resulting from an observation) then the "proposed UCD" can become an  
UCD.

For the rest, they are just building their own vocabulary, like other  
communities... and we can help SKOSify it!


Andrea

PS: how is your knee, Rick?



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