VOEvent session

[Frederic V. Hessman]

I would be happy to collect all of your favorite VOEvent-ish utypes  
(as well as any other terms you might need) and collect them to an  
IVOA-compliant VOEvent vocabulary.

Rick

On 17 Dec 2010, at 00:51, Rob Seaman wrote:

> On Dec 16, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Mike Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi Rick,
>>>
>>> Could you elaborate on this straightforward course?  Perhaps we  
>>> can head off a counter-reformation.
>>>
>>
>> I admit I don't always know what side of the reformation you are on  
>> Rob.
>
> As chair my interest is in avoiding a religious war, not necessarily  
> in any particular position.
>
>> Yes, drop simpleTimeSeries (it's practically a groundswell at this  
>> point!)
>
>
> "Groundswell" is an interesting word, whose original usage had  
> implications of a large wave running a ship aground.  Before  
> SimpleTimeSeries is dropped it would be good to hear from those who  
> designed it - and who are actually using it to do science on a time  
> series workflow.
>
> Also, I'm glad to see work proceeding on time series data in both  
> the IVOA and VAO.  When, realistically, can it be expected that this  
> will be mature enough for the WG to know what magic beans we're  
> trading our cow for?  I guess the idea is that we arrange for utypes  
> in SimpleTables now and then at some point in the future we start  
> populating the tables with officially blessed utypes?
>
> Rob
>