Re: IVOA Note on UCD maintenance

From: Nausicaa Delmotte <ndelmott-at-eso.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:50:17 +0200


Dear all,

Ana Ines Gomez de Castro wrote:
> 3. Concerning the web based form... don't you think that it would be
> good to have a Comments field where the "history" of the UCD
> approval/disapproval is recorded?. It is feasible that a scientist,
> after receiving the notification of "rejection" answers to the SciBoard
> providing new reasons for the inclusion of the UCD word, eventually some
> of these reasons maybe relevant and the SciBoard may reconsider the
> rejection.
>
> I have not the slighlest idea about the degree of activity we might
> expect from the Community BUT it maybe a good policy to keep all the
> "rejected UCDs" in data base so, any time someone wish to propose a new
> UCD, the data base can be cross-checked so some time can be saved to
> the Chair of the SciBoard. Maybe this list could be accessible to the
> Community.

Yes, keeping track of the rejected UCD words in a database/file/... would be indeed very nice for future reference. Else, or in addition, maybe we could add a 'status flag' field to the form, so that we could 'sort by' status (rejected, temporary, accepted) and date.

Cheers
Nausicaa Received on 2005-10-19Z06:51:21