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Vocabularies working area

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

Scope of a Standard Vocabulary: StdVocabScope
Use Cases for a Standard Vocabulary: StdVocabUseCases

Drafts and issues:

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Vocabularies v0.04

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For document source, see the Volute repository, in particular the code checkout
Complete download, including SKOS vocabulary files, at Volute downloads

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The draft at http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ivoa/vocabularies is updated at a somewhat higher cadence than formal releases

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The editors' draft at http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ivoa/vocabularies is potentially updated at a somewhat higher cadence than formal releases

Issues list at http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ivoa/vocabularies/issues

Vocabularies in the document

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One of the open issues (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

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Issue (vocabset-5) was 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, and the 1993 IAU thesaurus, whose inclusion is as far as I can see completely uncontroversial;
an IVOA Thesaurus based on the IAU-93, which may or may not be in this standard depending on whether people would prefer a completely separate process to develop it;
a UCD1+ vocabulary (though this deals with a different set of concepts – namely data types – from the other vocabularies and might arguably connect poorly to them); and
a SKOS version of the list of constellations, which is very simple, and which might reasonably find a home in this standard on that ground alone.

In addition, there are multiple informal keyword lists associated with the VOEvent arena (see Roy's message and Rob's). These haven't been SKOSified at all, and Rick's excellent suggestion is that these be left as homework for the VOEvent group.

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The way to make progress here is possibly to have various people adopt a vocabulary, for the period leading up to the standardisation.

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The resolution of that issue was that all these vocabularies should be included in the document, except IVOA-T, which will have a parallel standardisation process.

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However, the way to make progress here is possibly to have various people adopt a vocabulary, for the period leading up to the standardisation.

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vocab	in repository?	in standard?	patron
A&A	yes	yes	AlasdairGray
AOIM	yes	yes	?
IAU93	yes	yes	AlasdairGray
IVOAT	yes	yes?	RickHessman
UCD	yes	?	?
Constellations	no	yes?	RickHessman
AT	no	no	RoyWilliams?
ATEL, GCN, CBAT, ...	no	no	?

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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.

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Volunteers? The VOEvent lists should be pretty trivial to set up, but would need someone to push them along.

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