philosophical question about VOEvent

[Matthew Graham]

Hi,

On Mar 19, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Roy Williams wrote:

> > So use "probability" in <Why> to report your "percentage measure of fit" and put the proper details of how likelihood was "factually measured" in the <What> section.
> 
> But my imaginary event author does not have a "probability" measure, that is the point! All he has is the chi-squared X.

So they just don't report a probability.

> I wonder if we can change the definition of the <What> section slightly, replacing this:
> <What> was factually measured or observed to occur
> by this:
> <What> was factually measured or observed to occur, or other information relevant to the event,
> 
> It would make life much easier for the implementors of event services!

But then they can put stuff in the <What> section that properly belongs in the <WhereWhen> or <How> or <Why>.

Why not just scrap the whole v1.0 data model for v2.0 since it clearly is a bad idea.

	Cheers,

	Matthew