Vocabularies working area

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

Drafts and issues:

Vocabularies in the document

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

  • 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.

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

So:

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 ?

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.

-- NormanGray - 05 Feb 2008


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