Hi Jonathan,
just browsing through this document I think that this is an extremely
good starting point to end up
in a STC data model rather than in an implementation. I will go
through this more thoroughly and
then give some more detailed comments.
thanks,
Andreas
On 13.09.2006, at 13:28, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
>
> Following discussions with Francois Ochsenbein and others
> in Victoria, I've put together my own take on the STC data model.
> Arnold's STC document (the latest version of which is still in
> work) is a purely XML Schema oriented description, and the schema
> contains many optimizations to work around specific XML issues.
> I've tried to pull out the abstract data model that lies behind
> STC, and assign UTYPEs to the conceptual elements.
> The attempt is still very much a draft and somewhat incomplete,
> but I hope it may be useful to people in understanding the
> STC concepts, and serve as a basis for serializing STC in
> non-XML contexts.
>
> The document is at
> http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/vo/docs/stcmod.pdf
>
> - Jonathan
Received on 2006-09-13Z13:59:48