> Just wanted to ask what this list is to be used for.
For labeling VOEvents. So that a machine can decide if the interpretation of an event has changed as a result of followup or further analysis. That is why it was sent to the VOEvent mailing list.
> As Doug says, it looks much like UCDs.
These are syntactically like UCD, but they are not "content descriptors", but rather object and process descriptors.
> Where does the semantics come in?
Because the discussion is about the meanings of words. See definition below.
Roy
From wikipedia:
"In the main, semantics (from the Greek semantikos, or "significant
meaning," derived from sema, sign) is the study of meaning, in some
sense of that term.... Semantics is distinguished from ontology (study
of existence) in being about the use of a word more than the nature of
the entity referenced by the word."
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