Re: [Missing Practical Stuff]

Francois Bonnarel wrote:

> As announced at the very end of the DM3 session in Boston last Friday
> a small group of DM people including Mireille Louys, Jonathan, Brian Thomas,
> Alberto Micol and me will start a new task which is to describe in the
> Observation/quantity field various aspects which seem to be missing in the
> drafts at the moment (except a very premiminary "Packaging" section in the
> last version of the Observation draft)
>
> Just to summarize what it is all about:
>
> Brian's "private" proposal about External Resource, including
> Format Mime/types of the Files
> computer encoding ....
>
> Transform encoding / compression
> File size
>
> Pointers to real data and "Location" of relevant data in the dataset

None of the above are to do with modelling data! Nevertheless they are important, and I wonder if they would be better 'opened' in the interop group? Since they seem to be about locating & describing data instances in general? Some other groups have already considered some of these aspects - such as Registry and 'pointers'.

> Packaging of Science data with background, weight maps, sources
>
> Different views of the same observation (Full dataset, cutouts, previews,
> thubnails ....)
>
> Versioning ?
>
> Observations and "Related sub-observations" (eg HST associations, CCD mosaics, etc ...)
>
>
> We will try to produce something to be discussed before giving our thoughts
> to the list in a chaotic way. So if you are interested please send a mail
> to me or Jonathan, we will start as a sub-group.
>
>
> Regards
> François
>
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