IVOA Vocabularies - WD

[Tony Linde]

Can I ask why it was decided to create a new schema to represent this
vocabulary when the W3C has the SKOS standard for just this field?

http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKOS
  'SKOS or Simple Knowledge Organisation System is a family of formal
languages designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes,
taxonomies, subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured
controlled vocabulary. SKOS is built upon RDF and RDFS, and its main
objective is to enable easy publication of controlled structured
vocabularies for the Semantic Web. SKOS is currently developed within the
W3C framework.'

[also mentioned at:
   http://ivoa.net/forum/semantics/0510/0148.htm
   http://ivoa.net/forum/semantics/0703/0222.htm  ]

If there is a good reason for not using the common standard, it would be a
good idea to make that clear in the document.

T.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-semantics at eso.org [mailto:owner-semantics at eso.org] On
> Behalf Of Andrea Preite Martinez
> Sent: 05 September 2007 14:40
> To: Andrea Preite Martinez
> Cc: semantics at ivoa.net; gerard.lemson at mpe.mpg.de;
> herve.wozniak at obs.univ-lyon1.fr; ucd-sci at ivoa.net
> Subject: Re: IVOA Vocabularies - WD
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> the WD document "IVOA Vocabularies" v1.01 is now available at
> http://ivoa.net/Documents/latest/VOcabularies.html
> 
> Andrea
> 
> > I hope you enjoyed your holidays!
> > A small group of our community used the summer to tackle the problem
> of
> > vocabularies in the IVOA, putting together the different pieces of
> the
> > puzzle.
> >
> > The result is a document that you will shortly find at
> > http://ivoa.net/Documents/  as
> >
> > IVOA Vocabularies - WD - v1.01
> >
> > (replacing v1.0 of few days ago).
> >
> > Other files related to this WD are :
> > - an XML schema at http://ivoa.net/xml/VOcabularies/v1.0
> >
> > - the Standard Vocabulary
> >   http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaSemantics/SV_index.html
> >   http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaSemantics/SV-v1.0.xml
> >
> > and
> > - various examples in VOcabulary format on the WG twiki page
> >   http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaSemantics .
> >
> > Comments are welcome!
> 
> 
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