New issue?: vocabulary maintenance

[Norman Gray]

Apropos of:

On 2008 Jan 31, at 21:28, Norman Gray wrote:

> Perhaps the simplest answer there is to identify some individual or  
> team which will adopt each one of the vocabularies, and negotiate  
> with them, on-list or off.  Alasdair produced the A&A and AOIM  
> vocabularies, Rick the IVOAT and constellation ones, Alasdair  
> produced the IAU93 one from a variant of Rick's IVOAT script, and I  
> confess to being unsure of the original authorship of the SKOSified  
> UCD list, or how much of an exercise this was intended to be.
>
> Perhaps this is the other half of the answer to Ed's question: can  
> we have volunteers to adopt a vocabulary for a couple of months  
> leading up to the standard?  If we can't find adopters, and the  
> vocabulary is inadequate as it stands, then we can drop that  
> vocabulary from the document.

I've added a page at <http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VocabulariesWorkingArea 
 > which lists these vocabularies and others, and I invite you to  
sponsor one.

Of these, I think the core ones are the A&A vocab, the IVOA-T and AOIM.

IAU-93: we might as well include this, because it's easy and done.

UCD: It's mostly done, I gather, I'm not sure we really need a  
SKOSified version of the UCD list.

Constellations: I get the impression this is simple and done, and  
whether or not it provides a persistent standard, it should be a good  
example.

AT, ATEL, GCN, CBAT, ...: these sound pretty easy, but the list is  
getting rather long now.

Presuming that we'll be wanting to add mappings between these  
vocabularies (that being half the point of this project), this is  
starting to look like a lot of work.  Perhaps A&A, IVOAT and AOIM  
would be an adequately large set to include in the standard after all.

All the best,

Norman


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