New issue?: vocabulary maintenance

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Tue Feb 5 13:01:14 PST 2008


> 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.

Keep the initial list short.  Our goal isn't to anticipate all future  
participants, rather to provide a mechanism that will permit new (or  
quite mature) vocabularies to be added when needed.

Is there a practical limit to the number of vocabularies we will be  
able to support?  There may ultimately be dozens or hundreds (or more)  
distinct dialects.

Rob



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