<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Vocabulary enthusiast,</div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">After the Semantics WG session, a few of us spoke about having a meeting with people interested in vocabularies. Given the limited free time available I suggest getting together during the IVOA lunch break tomorrow (thursday). I wrote up a draft agenda below of what might be worth discussing, but of course we can expand on that.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know if you can make it and feel free to extend the invitation to other colleagues who might be interested.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>-- Alberto</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">VOA Vocabularies</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">-----------------</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Products and main stakeholders:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- Theory vocabularies (Frank Le Petit / VO Paris)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- Datalink (Markus/Pat / IVOA community)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- IVOAT (?)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- UAT (CfA Library, ADS, AAS / Publishing community)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- UCDs (CDS / IVOA community)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- Facilities (Baptiste Cecconi / IVOA Community)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Maintenance and Curation</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- no mandates: the curators should use the best/most efficient tools</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- best practices: to promote use of the vocabularies, we should recommend:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> - feedback: how feedback from community is incorporated into curation process</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> - versioning: how releases are created</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> - process: how vocabularies are vetted by the IVOA semantics WG</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> - publishing: how machine-readable formats are created and hosted</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> - provenance and history: tracking changes<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>over time,<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>preserving history of changes</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Publishing</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- what is the version of record?</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> - current relases on github/institutional repo</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> - "blessed" version on IVOA website</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- what is the minimal publishing requirement?</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> - periodic dumps of SKOS file(s) upon releases</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> - HTML landing pages for overall product and items</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- where should it be hosted?</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> - <a href="http://ivoa.net/" target="_blank">ivoa.net</a> (but under<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>what structure and format)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> - an institutional website (hosted by main curators, endorsed<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>by IVOA)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Facilities vocabulary</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">---------------------</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Stakeholders and Use cases</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- AAS: tag facilities in a machine readable way to facilitate downstream detection</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> (via indexing/search)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- CDS: assign facilities</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- Planetary community:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- <a href="http://arcsecond.io/" target="_blank">arcsecond.io</a>: is building facilities/instruments list</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Requirements/Questions (these influence discovery, access and use):</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- level of granularity</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- what metadata to include (e.g. long, lat?)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- includes archives? Services? Where is the boundary?</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- what is its relationship with entries in the registry if any?</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dr. Alberto Accomazzi<br>Principal Investigator</div><div>NASA Astrophysics Data System - <a href="http://ads.harvard.edu" target="_blank">http://ads.harvard.edu</a><br>Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - <a href="http://www.cfa.harvard.edu" target="_blank">http://www.cfa.harvard.edu</a><br>60 Garden St, MS 83, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA</div></div></div>
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