T0: basic UCD tree

From: Jonathan McDowell <jcm-at-head.cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:47:39 -0400 (EDT)

Hi UCD board,

I looked again at the UCD primary concepts and tried to group them. The one I am most worried about is "spect".

time,pos,em,phot Fundamental astro concepts, fine.

obs, phys Also good basic concepts

arith a good basic tree, although "math" might be better. stat Maybe should be under arith?

src      Another fundamental concept, although as usual I would argue for 
         a distinction between "src" (2D on the sky, results of observation) and
         "object" (real 3D thing in space).

instr Fairly fundamental but one could argue should be under obs

spect I worry about spect - this is a kind of data.

         If spect, why not image? I predict a few years from now
         we will have to change spec and instr.image to data.spect, data.image, etc.

Despite this worry, I am willing to endorse the current list for the PR.

Received on 2005-06-09Z20:48:05