VOConcepts paper

[Elizabeth Auden]

> We don't want to build this vocabulary (which will evolve constantly) into
> each service implementation, so it needs to be possible to download these
> mappings via the network, and cache the translation table in the service.
> They need to be in a standard form which the service code can deal with,
> probably something based on XML.

Perhaps OWL or RDF triples?

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