Re: A Working document has been submitted

From: Martin Hill <mchill-at-dial.pipex.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:41:09 +0100


Errrm - as I understand it, UCDs are *never* uniquely resolvable. ie, even if there is a unique UCD in one table, it doesn't necessarily mean it has the same meaning as a column with the same UCD in another table.

That means we need to get user confirmation at every stage where we map between UCDs and table columns at the moment, and wherever we specify an actual applied query, it needs to be resolved to actual table column names.

Tony Linde wrote:

> I think it is essential that ADQL support the use of *both* UCDs and column
> names. It'll be up to the query interface to substitute column names (by
> asking the user probably) where UCDs are not uniquely resolvable.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tony. 
> 
> 

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-voql-at-eso.org [mailto:owner-voql-at-eso.org] On
>>Behalf Of Roy Williams
>>Sent: 07 October 2003 15:50
>>To: Clive Page; voql
>>Subject: Re: A Working document has been submitted
>>
>>
>>
>>> Region ('CIRCLE J2000 19.5 -36.7 0.02')
>>
>>I have a question in the same style. I would like to start
>>using the UCD ontology within VOQL. I am imagining metadata
>>queries like
>>
>>select table where UCDMatch(table, "phys.velocity, src.galaxy") > 0.8
>>
>>in order to find tables that have galactic velocities. Can
>>VOQL be extended in this way?
>>
>>Roy
>>

>
> Received on 2003-10-07Z19:42:52