Vocabulary: Use cases

[Andrea Preite Martinez]

Hi all,

I think most of us are already or will be busy with ADASS and then InterOp.
It is probably time to reorganize in our minds what was said during  
the discussion, and at the same time profit from the imposed pause to  
envisage a way, e.g. with few real life examples / use-cases  
understandable by astronomers:

(A) to evaluate the different alternatives for vocabulary format:

1. XML and the proposed schema, or just another one
2. SKOS
3. RDF
   (+other?)
0. no format = no formal vacabulary.

No formal vocabulary doesn't mean no Standard Vocabulary, it just  
means that your pet taxonomy is, say, in the form of, or is associated  
to, a sort of look-up-table to express your concepts in terms of SV  
equivalence.
Option (0) is the default one, not a 4th one at the same level than  
the other. What I mean is that (0) is the minimum action required to  
assure a minimum level of interoperability.
Btw, this is the way the authors of the draft proceeded in order to  
build the examples. First build the lut, then use a tool to build the  
xml file. Btw(2), in the WG twiki page you can also find some of those  
tables, named ?indexes? in .xtml

(B) to evaluate the potential of an option in terms of evolution of  
the needs of the community;

(C) Then, who is doing and where and how is done the translation work  
to move from (0) to any one of the options.

In the case of UCDs, the translation between local quantity names and  
standard quantity tokens is done locally, with the optional help of  
centralized tools.

Who is volunteering?

Cheers

Andrea


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