VocabulariesWorkingArea < IVOA

---+ Vocabularies working area

This is a scratch area for the various ongoing vocabularies projects.

The current draft of the Vocabularies working draft is at http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ivoa/vocabularies and there's an issues list at http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ivoa/vocabularies/issues

---++ Vocabularies in the document

One of the open issues ([[http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ivoa/vocabularies/issues#vocabset-5][vocabset-5]]) is to decide which vocabularies to include in the standard document.  There are six vocabularies which have been associated with the draft standardisation process, namely the A&A journal keyword list, the IVOA AOIM list, the 1993 IAU thesaurus, an IVOA Thesaurus based on that, a UCD1+ vocabulary (though there are some questions about whether that's a vocabulary of concepts, or a set of types), and a SKOS version of the list of constellations. There are multiple informal keyword lists associated with the VOEvent arena (see [[http://www.ivoa.net/forum/semantics/0802/0682.htm][Roy's message]] and [[http://www.ivoa.net/forum/semantics/0802/0685.htm][Rob's]]).  The way to make progress here is possibly to have various people adopt a vocabulary, for the period leading up to the standardisation.

The vocabularies I'm aware of are:

|  vocab  |  in [[http://code.google.com/p/volute/source/checkout][repository]]?  |  patron  |
| A&amp;A  |  yes  | AlasdairGray  |
| IVOAT  |  yes  | Rick  |
| IAU93  |  yes  | AlasdairGray  |
| UCD  |  yes  | ?  |
| AOIM  |  yes  | ?  |
| Constellations  |  no  | Rick  |
| [[http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/][AT]]  |  no  | Roy?  |
| ATEL, GCN, CBAT, ...  |  no  | ?  |

Is this a good list?  Ought there to be more, or fewer?  Volunteers?  The VOEvent lists should be pretty trivial to set up, but would need someone to push them along.

-- IVOA.NormanGray - 05 Feb 2008




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