Former specification and discussions in the Semantics WG -2003-2014

Semantics/UCD Sessions at Interop Meetings

'New Technologies' sessions

These aren't formally 'semantics' sessions, but they've been organised by the Semantics WG

WG Roadmap

Old documents

• UCD Maintenance process Version 1.20

• Version 1.2 of the The UCD1+ controlled vocabulary : PR in the RFC period (till Nov 3 2006).<br />The RFC period is now closed. Comments (2) and answers can be found at the RFC page at UCDListRFC. Comments were accepted and the proposed slight changes were included in version 1.21 of the document : PR-version1.21. Slight changes following comments by WG/IG chairs were included in version 1.22 of the document: PR-version1.22
• IVOA Vocabularies:, WD v0.11 pdf , html

• The IVOA Standard Vocabulary (Processes, Object types, Instrumentation,..) Version 0.8 (20060505) : VO-standard-vocabulary_8.pdf

• TN: Ontology of Astronomical Object Types, text: ObjectTypes.pdf, Javadoc files: OWLDOC-ObjectTypes.zip or OWLDOC-ObjectTypes_tar.gz

• VO-standard-vocabulary Vers. 0.5 of 20051220 (.pdf)

• UCDmaintenanceRFC

• UCDListRFC

• • Electromagnetic spectrum division v0.3: .html, .pdf * Proposed revision (2003): UCD-1.9.9 (.pdf, .doc) and UCD-1.9.9b (.pdf, .doc)

Links

• Semantics
  • The EuroVO project, VOTech, had a work package DS5: Intelligent Resource Discovery which is focussed on developing astro semantics with the goal of making resource discovery and use more user-oriented. This area of VOTech is led by SebastienDerriere.
  • That page also has some useful links

• Former RFM page discussed in the WG around 2006 : UCDwordsRFM
• The web-based form for requesting a modification (RFM) of UCD words can be found at: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/UCD/cgi-bin/comment/ucd/Comments
• UCD page at CDS: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/UCD/
• Tools to find and build UCDs: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/UCD/cgi-bin/descr2ucd