VOEvent and Heliophysics Knowledge Base: new schema
Frederic V. Hessman
Hessman at Astro.physik.Uni-Goettingen.de
Tue Oct 30 02:33:39 PDT 2007
> A heads-up to the peanut gallery. The basic idea is to work on
> v2.0 of the standard. V2.0 is intended to be backwards compatible,
> i.e., a v1.1 packet should validate against a v2.0 schema (other
> than technical XML issues, I suppose). In addition to permitting
> the enclosure of external schema (in <What> or <Whatever>), the
> other four items suggested so far for v2.0 are:
>
> XML signatures
> Time series (via SDM elements in <What>)
> Orbital elements (via STC elements in <WhereWhen>)
> SKOS vocabulary support in <Why>
Maybe <WhatElse> rather than <Whatever>? "Whatever" rates at about
0.9 seamans (the unofficial IVOA unit of glibness) whereas "what
else" is more like 0.05 seamans.
Rick
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