Summary of VOEvent session

[Frederic Hessman]

>> I presented Rob's slides about what has been happening with VOEvent  
>> 2.0 (no real interest, even about time series representation) and  
>> the future meetings for the VOEvent community (yes, we have a live  
>> outside of IVOA).
>
> Hey Rick - are you going to be at SPIE?

Wasn't planning on it, but give me a good reason....

>> where is our data model if we are using Utypes as keywords (I will  
>> look into what we need to formally say here).
>
> Cool.

There was mucho confusion/arguments about just what Utypes are, aren't  
and should be.  Everything I heard made it sound as if they are just  
specialized vocabularies and Norman pointed out that a vocabulary  
namespace would enable everyone to agree on and have documentation for  
a common set more easily than creating things separately and then  
trying to match between attempts afterwards.

>> Ric Hessman spoke about vocabularies and this led to a slightly  
>> more general discussion about them but nothing specifically  
>> relevant to VOEvent.
>
> Likely still worth the effort.  (Easy for me to say.)

I agreed to take Matthew's Catalina vocabulary and turn it in to a  
proto-VOEvent vocabulary.   The mini semantic session seemed to accept  
my idea of making the production of a VOEvent vocabulary a good test  
case for everyone else.

Rick