VOEvent priorities

[Roy Williams]

Joshua Bloom wrote:
>  The idea of timeseries is that it has a time axis. We should be able to represent gravity chirp signals, sn light curves, pulsar pulse shapes, etc. But it's certainly not a kitchen sink on purpose. Those examples you propose don't pass the smell test of being a time series.
>   
Josh

I note that the web page about the proposed "simpleTimeSeries" (*) does 
not say how to represent any time series except for light curves in 
optical wavebands. In fact it says there: "The primary use for 
SimpleTimeseries ... is to exchange light-curve data ..."

So how other time series be represented in the proposed schema? Gravity 
chirp signals, list of image URLs, ephemeris, etc etc. Looks like  NOTE 
and DVAL can be combined (?) to allow general time series to be 
represented. I am not clever enough with schema to see what is really 
allowed.

Could I ask that either:
-- the web page include examples on representing time series that are 
not light curves?
Or
-- rename the schema to reflect its lesser scope, perhaps call it 
simpleLightCurve?

Cheers
Roy

(*) http://dotastro.org/simpletimeseries/

-- 

California Institute of Technology
626 395 3670