A modest proposal for VOEvent
Petr Kubánek
petr at iaa.es
Sun Feb 22 18:21:59 PST 2009
OK, and will then stream provides provide me with library, which will
convert their params to RA DEC I can use to point telescope on?
Petr
Roy Williams píše v Ne 22. 02. 2009 v 18:19 -0800:
>
> Petr Kubánek wrote:
> > Then the question is: who will validate it and how you will enforce that
> > people will not invent their own names.
> >
>
> Petr
> One of the next pieces of the VOEvent structure is the "stream"
> definition, it is like a schema for a particular set of events. The
> stream defines the Params and Groups that will be used in events of that
> stream, their meanings and UCD and units and descriptions. When the
> event comes, it simply provides values for those pre-defined paramters.
> Examples of streams are: Fermi, OGLE, Catalina, AAVSO, etc.
>
> Thus the event provider is constrained by the Params they have already
> defined as their stream metadata.
> Roy
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