Semantics and astronomy domains

[Alberto Accomazzi]

Hi Norman,

Unfortunately I haven't been able to attend recent IVOA meetings, so I'm 
not up to speed with the current thinking of the semantics lovers in the 
group.  Has there been any talk about using some community-sanctioned 
namespaces, wikis, repositories for ontologies, vocabularies, etc? 
After you published the skos vocabolaries it looked like ivoa.net might 
become the place for this type of activity, but a less official 
arrangement may give developers more flexibility and control.  In which 
case this could be a good placeholder for such yet-to-be-deployed things.

Thanks,
-- Alberto


Norman Gray wrote, On 9/10/10 9:53 AM:
> Greetings.
> 
> A couple of years ago, Tony Linde proactively registered a few DNS domains in case they became useful.  No necessity to use them emerged, however, and the registrations are due to lapse (on 10 October this year), so he asked me to ask here if anyone would want to have 
> 
> astroontology.net
> astroontology.org
> 
> ...transferred to them.
> 
> He'd previously registered astroinformatics.{org,net}, and I took those over a few months ago.  I have some vague plans to do something with them, but nothing concrete just yet.
> 
> If you're interested in astroontology.{org,net}, let Tony know (email in the CC).
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Norman
> 
> 

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Dr. Alberto Accomazzi                  aaccomazzi(at)cfa harvard edu
Program Manager
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