VOEvent session

[Rob Seaman]

Hi Rick,

Could you elaborate on this straightforward course?  Perhaps we can head off a counter-reformation.

Rob
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On Dec 16, 2010, at 12:36 AM, Frederic V. Hessman wrote:

> While this discourse is reasonably entertaining, I keep forgetting the point.....
> 
> Here are some theses I'd like to tack onto your virtual church doors:
> 
> * XML is here and probably to stay and there's nothing reasonably useful to replace it (yet).
> * Controlled content is better than uncontrolled content (e.g. FITS, despite all of it's problems, has made our lives much simpler), since that's the only way the VO can function.
> * The only reasonable way to control XML content (currently) is a schema (even if we'd like to have better ways of defining schemata).
> * Uncontrolled utypes are just a way of documenting how uncontrolled one's content is.
> * There are IVOA standard ways to control one's content (UCD, SKOS).
> * VOTable is here to stay, whether you like it or not (correllary: You will have to be able to process VOTables in a VO context, whether you like it or not).
> 
> Given these theses, the course would appear to be straightforward...
> 
> Rick