Astronomical vocabulary explorer

[Alasdair J G Gray]

Hi all,

Just a further note about the web service. There appears to be some 
problems when using the Safari browser :-(

I'm looking into the problem, in the meantime, please keep playing with 
it and letting me know what you think.

So far, the feedback has been very positive.

Alasdair

Alasdair Gray wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a second attempt to send this mail to the semantics list, 
> apologies if the first one finally makes it through for some reason.
>
> To support the work on the Working Draft, "Vocabularies in the Virtual 
> Observatory <http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/vocabularies.html>", 
> I have developed a web service that:
>
>   * Allows a user to search for concepts in the vocabularies by
>     entering keywords
>   * Navigate through the returned concepts and explore the
>     relationships between the concepts
>
> The service is available from 
> http://explicator.dcs.gla.ac.uk/WebVocabularyExplorer/
>
> The service uses the five vocabularies 
> <http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/WD/Semantics/vocabularies-20080320/> 
> published with the working draft together with one mapping file that 
> relates the concepts of the A&A Keywords to the AOIM. The mapping file 
> is available from 
> http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~agray/Vocab/vocab-1.0/AAkeys2AOIM.ttl
>
> Any comments or feedback about the service is appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alasdair

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Dr Alasdair J G Gray
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~agray/

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