Update of the IVOA UCD list incorporating items for planetary data

[Mcglynn, Thomas A. (GSFC-6601)]

I googled  the phrase "abbreviations are kept to a minimum" as a quoted 
phrase.
Every use I see suggests that the <usage> of abbreviations is minimized, 
not the <length>.  Here are the
first few I see.

- We try to make sure such /abbreviations are kept to a minimum/. If 
necessary, we will provide an explanation of any abbreviations used.
- Since this book is designed to be read in non-English-speaking (as 
well as English-speaking) countries, /abbreviations are kept to a minimum/.
- In the following listing /abbreviations are kept to a minimum/.
-The text is quite lavish — /abbreviations are kept to a minimum/.
- all terms are defined clearly; and ○ /abbreviations are kept to a 
minimum/.
- The references are intended to be representative but not exhaustive, 
and, as an aid to the reader, /abbreviations are kept to a minimum/.

If the usage you suggested was meant, the I'd expect text following a 
bit latter might say ... "t is ambiguous, time and temp  are used 
instead" as opposed to the actual text "t is ambiguous time and 
temperature are used instead"

     Tom

Louys Mireille wrote:
> Hi Tom,  all
>
> thanks for pointing this .
> I agree this might be misleading .
> I understood it myself as 'abbreviations are kept to a minimum length 
> if applied...'
>
> any other opinion?
>
> thanks for your examples .
> Mireille.
>
> Le 29/08/2014 16:14, Mcglynn, Thomas A. (GSFC-6601) a écrit :
>> Just a tiny editorial comment.  I was amused by the first statement 
>> in section 1.1 of the UCD draft, i.e.,
>>  "Abbreviations are kept to a minimum, and only if the result is not 
>> ambiguous."
>> In practice abbreviations are used extensively and no apparent 
>> attempt has been made to minimize their usage.  Not saying there 
>> should be, just that the quoted statement is contrary to the actual 
>> practice.  E.g., 11 of the 12 top level atoms are abbreviations -- 
>> only 'time' is written in full.  The EM bands are mostly abbreviated 
>> and there a bazillion
>> uses of MHz and GHz, and "det" for detector and "freq" for 
>> frequency,  "obsty" for observatory and "tel" for telescope, "bib" 
>> for bibliographic, ....
>>
>> I am not suggesting that UCDs be expanded, but that the statement I 
>> mentioned above be elided.  We could just say
>> "Abbreviations are used in contexts where their meaning is 
>> unambiguous" and not make any claim that that use is limited.
>>
>>     Tom
>>
>> Louys Mireille wrote:
>>> Dear Semantics member,
>>> Dear UCD-maintenance group 's member,
>>>
>>> Here attached is a draft for the update of the UCD list in order to 
>>> enrich the corpus with items covering the Planetary data use-case.
>>>
>>> New UCD strings have been proposed  by B. Cecconi et al.  at the 
>>> IVOA Interop in Madrid and circulated via the wiki page
>>> http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/PlanetaryUCD
>>>
>>> see attached Note:  SolarSystemUCD-V06.pdf
>>>
>>> The following working draft is open for discussion .
>>>
>>> Your comments and feedback are welcome .
>>>
>>> best wishes , Mireille
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>