Re: observation proposal and name of the observer

From: Andrea Preite Martinez <andrea.preitemartinez-at-iasf-roma.inaf.it>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:26:34 +0200


Quoting Nausicaa Delmotte <ndelmott-at-eso.org>:

> - What is the difference between 'title of an observation proposal'
> and 'name of an observation proposal'?
>
> So far I would not have expected any difference but with the introduction
> of the new UCD word obs.proposal, it seems it is possible to construct both
> meta.title;obs.proposal
> and
> meta.id;obs.proposal
>
> Maybe someone could provide an example, in case there is a difference
> of meaning
> between those two UCDs? I just cannot see the difference... (given
> that the proposal
> code is already defined by meta.code;obs.proposal).
>

Don't forget catalogues! According to the Catalogue DM, a catalogue can have:

My point of view:
- The title of XYZ is a string describing the content of XYZ, as in a scientific paper (actually this is the origin of the ucd); - the name/identifier is a string uniquely identifying XYZ, as for humans (e.g.: Andrea Preite Martinez is my name/identifier); - a short name for me could be APM (and my "code" could be my social security number!).
I don't see the difference between name and identifier.

Another point is that a "possible" ucd is not necessarily a "good" ucd!!

> By the way, what about the 'abstract of the observation proposal'?
> meta.abstract;obs.proposal?
>

Good, why not?

> - Name of the observer: so far it has been obs.observer
> but if we introduce meta.id.PI, meta.id.Coi for human beings,
> why not meta.id.Observer;obs?
>

The ucd-word obs.observer was introduced to describe the observer/discoverer of a source, then extended to PIs. By the way, not always the PI is also the Observer, so why not have both!

Cheers,
Andrea


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