Re: VO or VObs

From: Doug Tody <dtody-at-nrao.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:00:59 -0600 (MDT)


The convention for nearly 5 years now within astronomy is that VO means Virtual Observatory. Of course within the Grid community it also means virtual organization, but this is much the same concept merely generalized to the broader world. I think we should stick with VO.

Doug

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Wil O'Mullane wrote:

> I see the use of VO for Virtual Observatory (I use it myself) but also
> I notice (particulalry our AstroGrid colleques) use VObs for Virtual
> observatory
>
> Do we have one we should use in our IVOA documents ? In particular I
> wish to do the next draft of VOSupportInterfaces but should that be
> VObsSupportInterfaces as Guy names it ?
>
> wil
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