Dear Dal and DM People
At a meeting last week, a small group of influential astronomers sat down to build a "simple and effective common format for Time Series". Something like magnitude vs time for a source. Of course I told them about all the work in the Virtual Observatory, but they said those standards are too complicated and they just want something simple. Then the discussion showed that time series are complicated things and there was a fistfight over leap seconds etc etc ...
So I write to ask for an actual example of a Time Series that is written with the Spectrum and/or Characterization data models. Something that is simple, just a few magnitudes and times. Does anybody have such a thing that I can send around to these astronomers and say "look how useful the IVOA standards can be!".
Thank you
Roy
Received on 2007-06-10Z17:24:13