VOEvent priorities

[Arnold Rots]

Looking at this SimpleTimeSeries specification, it looks to me like it
is establishing a new standard for STC metadata, different from the
existing IVOA standard.

That does not seem like a sensible approach.

The schema that I suggested a while back was compliant with existing
standards: 

    http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/nvometa/STC/stcTab.xsd

Example:

    http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/nvometa/STC/STCTable.xml

If you don't want to specify flux density in the coordinate system, it
can be simplified to:

    http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/nvometa/STC/STCTable2.xml

UCDs can be added, the table description can be improved, but the
coordinate definition structure provides compliance with existing space
and time coordinate metadata standards.

Cheers,

  - Arnold


Rob Seaman wrote:
> It appears that the many diverse activities in the VOEvent
> *community* may be distracting from what's going on in the VOEvent
> *working group*. 
> 
> Just to be clear, the top priority of the working group is to bring
> VOEvent v2.0 to an IVOA recommendation by the Victoria InterOp in May.
> V2.0 is defined by its support for time series (there are a handful of
> smaller priorities).  The WG chair intends that this support will be
> provided by minor tweaks (if any are indeed needed) to the Berkeley
> SimpleTimeSeries. 
> 
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