VOConcepts paper

[Doug Tody]

I suspect we are headed towards something like that.  Probably what is 
needed is to define the information in some simple, stable,
technology-independent fashion which we (IVOA) control, then auto-generate
the namespaces and mappings in several popular forms such as OWL, RDF,
etc., for use at runtime by implementations.  Perhaps also in HTML, for
human viewing of the terminology and dictionaries.  It should be possible
to use the information without having to adopt some complex inference
framework, but we don't want to prevent people from doing so either.   Doug


On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Elizabeth Auden wrote:
>> 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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