Question - History of ivoa onto of astronomical object types

[Francoise Genova]

Sorry Markus, but if there are questions about the Object Type Ontology, 
there are people on the list who should be able to answer. I begun to 
post information, we can discuss off line with Robert if you prefer that 
the discussion is outside the IVOA list. Robert, you can take me as the 
contact point.

Best
Francoise



Le 03/12/2021 à 09:15, Markus Demleitner a écrit :
> Robert,
>
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 07:45:29AM +0000, Robert Rovetto wrote:
>> Can anyone on the list who were original developers of that
>> ontology share the history of it?
> I suppose you're referring to
> https://ivoa.net/documents/Notes/AstrObjectOntology/. First, for
> orientation: This was a technology study that did not actually make
> it to any productive application (as far as I am aware).  Our current
> effort, http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/object-type/, is only loosely
> connected to that.  If I were to draw a provenance tree of the whole
> thing, this vocabulary would be quite a bit down a different branch.
>
> Having said that, almost all of the original authors are now retired
> or are working outside of science and are hence no longer reading
> this list.  If you'd like to collect some history on that particular
> effort, you might hence be better off trying to locate some of the
> authors using other channels and ask them directly.
>
>            -- Markus