Re: New UCD1+ for SIA protocol

From: Robert Hanisch <hanisch-at-stsci.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:52:09 -0500

> A comment on
>
> 1) VOX:Image_Scale --> instr.scale
> and
>
> 2) UCD1+:meta.bullshit (Bob's message)
>
> 1. In the list of ucd1+ that I derived, the atoms "image" and "scale" are
> present in instr.scale and obs.image . To me the concept of scale in this
> context is more important than the concept of image, then I supported
> "instr.scale".
> A much better alternative could be the definition of the new ucd1+:
> obs.image.scale

Yes, much better!

> 2. While examining all the tables and columns in Vizier I came across 2 or
> 3 columns whose names and descriptions were so cryptical that even going
to
> the original papers I could not understand the nature of what the
author(s)
> had in mind to describe. My limitation, of course. I then marked those
> cases with this (probably a bit offensive) tag.
> The file ~/ucd1-ucd1p.txt was then automatically generated from a much
> bigger/detailed file, and the tag slipped through. If and when we will
move
> to ucd1+, I'll remove it.

How about meta.unknown?

Not that I am so easy to offend, mind you, but...

Bob

>
> Andrea
>



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