Fwd: VOEvent References

[Rob Seaman]

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> From: Matthew Graham <mjg at cacr.caltech.edu>
> Date: March 17, 2011 11:26:50 AM MST
> To: Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu>
> Cc: Roy Williams <roy.williams at ligo.org>
> Subject: Re: VOEvent References
> 
> Yes
> 
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Rob Seaman wrote:
> 
>> ...and I was wondering what we'd find to talk about during the two weeks before RFC :-)
>> 
>> Would it be ok to cc the WG?
>> --
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Matthew Graham wrote:
>> 
>>> I think that this is OK but I am not going to have time to write anything about it until the week after next and even then it's pushing it.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Roy Williams wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Matthew
>>>> As the one who suggested the new form of the <Reference> element, what do you think of the proposed change. As I understand it, Ricks suggestion is that the semantic "type" attribute that we defined is now called "content", and there is a new idea to include what is essentially a MIME type, but written in a special Rickish way as vos:votable.
>>>> 
>>>> Of course it is easy to add a bunch of new attribute tags to the <Reference> element. The difficult part is the explanation in the document about what they all mean.
>>>> 
>>>> If you agree with Rick to add a new attribute, can you try to write definitions. What we have now is:
>>>> A <Reference> element has three attributes:
>>>> uri — The identifier of another document. Should follow URI syntax.
>>>> type — The type of the document. Should follow URI syntax. The default value is "url".
>>>> name — A short, optional name to be used in descriptive text.
>> 
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