>> Why don't we simply apply for an obivous root URI like
>>
>> http://www.ivoa.net/thesauri/ ?
>
> I thought there were multiple vocabularies, but a single
> thesaurus. Also, isn't "http://ivoa.net/thesaurus" more user
> friendly?
No, we have more than one thesaurus coming out. I generally don't
like checking spelling on-line, but Merriam-Webster says "thesauri"
and "thesauruses" (not to be confused with "thesauruseses") are OK.
I vote for the shorter, simpler term "thesauri" (0.6 seamans) rather
than "thesaurueseseseseses" (10^3 seamans).
>> Now you all know how many beers you all owe me.
>
> When next will you be in N.A. (North America, not "Non-
> Applicable")? Could we have a show of hands of those planning to
> attend the "Practical Semantics" workshop in February or the
> Trieste InterOp in May?
I'd love to, but hope to be in South Africa commissioning MONET/South in February. You're welcome to come on down and offer me a bottle of Cape Shiraz.
Don't know about InterOp.
> Next step? It seems to me we should wrap this up as a note and
> then put our tinfoil hats on and reach out to IAU Commission 5,
> mothership to both IVOA and the IAU Thesaurus. This should include
> contacting the original authors for comment. Engaging the IAU is
> as important as settling these issues for our own internal usage.
Andrea has a Wiki setup for those wanting to contribute to the basic vocabulary/thesaurus working draft. I suggest we include IAU93 (finished?), UCD (getting there), and AOIM (easy) as prepared example vocabularies which will work right out of the box, since they are simple reformatted versions where no one can complain. When IVOAT appears, we add the cross-referencing to IAU93, UCD and AOIM and show how much more powerful this is than simply having separate lists of tokens.
Rick Received on 2007-11-13Z18:55:11