VOEvent vocabulary?

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Sat Jun 7 21:12:22 PDT 2008


Hi Rick,

> Thus, my suggestion to all of you interested in vocabularies for  
> VOEvent is:
> 	- assume that VOEvent at first uses IVOAT, which should take care  
> of 98% of our needs at first with practically no work;
> 	- gear up to access this and other vocabularies, assuming that they  
> will be hosted centrally at IVOA;
> 	- decide whether your own VOEvent software wants to read XML or  
> Turtle (both should be available for correctly published  
> vocabularies);
> 	- see if you can find any terms you'd like to use but can't find in  
> the present IVOAT standard;
> 	- start collecting specialized terms for a small VOEvent vocabulary.

Sounds like a good plan.  I'd suggest seeding the VOEvent vocabulary  
with some small set of terms in any event such that we'll be forced to  
support multiple source lists from the start.

Rob



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