Question - History of ivoa onto of astronomical object types

[Francoise Genova]

Sorry again, I was preparing my message when Markus sent his one and I 
did not see it at that time.

Francoise

Le 03/12/2021 à 10:41, Francoise Genova a écrit :
> 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.
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> Best
> Francoise
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> Le 03/12/2021 à 09:15, Markus Demleitner a écrit :
>> Robert,
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>> 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
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