Re: New issue?: vocabulary maintenance

From: Rob Seaman <seaman-at-noao.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:01:14 -0700


> AT, ATEL, GCN, CBAT, ...: these sound pretty easy, but the list is
> getting rather long now.
>
> Presuming that we'll be wanting to add mappings between these
> vocabularies (that being half the point of this project), this is
> starting to look like a lot of work. Perhaps A&A, IVOAT and AOIM
> would be an adequately large set to include in the standard after all.

Keep the initial list short. Our goal isn't to anticipate all future participants, rather to provide a mechanism that will permit new (or quite mature) vocabularies to be added when needed.

Is there a practical limit to the number of vocabularies we will be able to support? There may ultimately be dozens or hundreds (or more) distinct dialects.

Rob Received on 2008-02-05Z22:01:26