Re: SV and Thesaurus - decide

> sub-set officially. You can't build, from scratch, a list of words that
> describes everything everyone is doing at the moment, let alone in the
> future. It is fundamentally not possible to build a canonical and final
> list of "stuff" in a subject like ours, which deals with broad topics
> and changes on a fairly rapid time scale. Subjects that have done this
> face more bounded problem sets.

This is exactly the sense of my note at the bottom of the msg starting this thread.
But my note was on Movie B = *the* ultimate vocabulary, or thesaurus, or dictionary, in astronomy, which is not (a) what was the request of the other WGs (b) by no means tackled in the draft.
In the draft SV what you can find is "rotation" as indicating the spinning of something around an axis. You don't find, say, "rotating galaxies" or "rotating asteroid". You can use that token "rotation" in a variety of different situations, from rotating galaxies to rotating asteroids, without the anguish to foresee all possible concepts in all possible contexts, as you have to do in a thesaurus.

> If you're going to go and build a framework where we can fit our own
> words and collaboratively create and manage a vocabulary to annotate
> and categorize our content then I vote YES. If what is being voted on
> here is going off and building a big list of words, I vote NO.
>
> Al.

I called for a decision on the draft SV: Doug and Rick have reminded us that at least 2 WGs need it. Practical use cases (like the basic ones I put in a recent msg) are not treated in the draft, so I assume that there is a request to edit the draft to include some. Perfect, this is why we are discussing the draft in the WG. We have all the elements to take a decision.

I didn't call yet for a decision on the astronomical vocabulary/thesaurus/ontology.
There are basic questions asked by Tony on this second topic (for instance: who needs it and to do what) that are yet not answered at all. We certainly need to discuss more on this.

Cheers
Andrea

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