Vocab format

Brian Thomas thomas at astro.umd.edu
Fri Sep 14 13:08:55 PDT 2007


On Friday 14 September 2007 3:43:03 pm Tony Linde wrote:
> 
> Question: can we define vocabularies with only simple terms or do we need the concepts of narrower and broader 
> terminologies? Any other such concepts? 
>  

	Im not sure I follow the question. Do you mean we don't want to create a 'Galaxy' term 
	because there are various kinds of Galaxy, and thats too broad? I'd disagree with that.

	I do think that the focus should be solely on astronomical objects for the time being (e.g. no worrying
	about 'data provider', 'publisher', 'equation', 'workflow', etc, etc. and the gazillion other 
	terms one might associate with doing astronomy work online).

	=brian



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