Vocabulary+SV

[Frederic V. Hessman]

Of course - there must be a minimal textual definition which  
officially accompanies the token and - at least as simple text - is  
machine processable in principle (see, e.g.  http://www.ivoa.net/ 
internal/IVOA/IvoaSemantics/AAkeys-v1.0.xml from our original XML- 
based vocabulary format suggestion, which even has the possibility of  
multiple definitions for the same token, something which SKOS et al  
don't support except by unconstrained effort, e.g. a generic rdf:Bag?).

Rick

On 11 Sep 2007, at 11:08 am, Alasdair Gray wrote:

> From: owner-semantics at eso.org [mailto:owner-semantics at eso.org] On  
> Behalf Of Frederic V. Hessman
> Sent: 11 September 2007 08:35
> To: semantics at ivoa.net
> Cc: Rob Seaman; Allan Alasdair; Tuparev Georg
> Subject: Re: Vocabulary+SV
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> I think the main point is that it doesn't really matter what format  
> we use, as long as 1) VOcabulary remains primarily a token list, 2)  
> thus remains "easy" to process with "standard" tools, and 3) we all  
> adopt it as the main (only?) standard in our daily VO-operations  
> (the latter is the whole point of this frustrating exercise).  If  
> someone needs a copy in OWL or Excel or CSV or cunieform, then  
> there will always be simple means for translating a token list,  
> with or without some ontological baggage.
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> Do you not also need some standard definition for the tokens to  
> ensure that everyone uses the terms in the same way? If you are  
> going to have such a standard definition, why not also make the  
> definition machine readable? This does not mean that the machine  
> has to make use of these definitions every time the tokens are  
> used, but since it is likely that people will be using the standard  
> vocabulary in conjunction with other vocabularies it would be  
> useful to then be able to perform automated reasoning.
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> Alasdair
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> Alasdair J G Gray
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> Research Associate: Explicator Project
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> Computer Science, University of Glasgow
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> 0141 330 6292
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