Use of Quantity, STC and Characterization within Catalog. (Was: Re: Characterization predraft in Postscript

[Brian Thomas]

	Oops. Sorry, I screwed up the document URL, the *working* one is:

http://archive.astro.umd.edu/VOCatalogTest/docs/VOmodel_merger.pdf

	 =b.t.

On Friday 01 April 2005 03:43 pm, Brian Thomas wrote:
> 
> 	Hi All,
> 
> 	I'm cross-posting this to the characterization and catalog groups as this
> 	work overlaps both.
> 
> 	In coordination with some of the others of you, Ed and I have been working
> 	on trying to do a serialization/datamodel for "Catalog" which utilizes 
> 	existing VO datamodels (namely STC, Quantity and Characterization).
> 
> 	The main problem in moving forward with the catalog work has been the
> 	overlapping (and conflicting) nature of the above VO datamodels. We have tried
> 	to resolve the most aggregious issues and create a simple source catalog.
> 
> 	You can find our work (as document, schema and xml example) at the 
> 	following address:
> 
> 	http://archive.astro.umd.edu/VOCatalogTest
> 
> 	For those of you who just want to read our proposal, unified model, please
> 	hop to:
> 
> 	http://archive.astro.umd.edu/VOCatalogTest/docs/VOModel_merger.pdf
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Brian (and Ed)
> 
> 
> On Friday 01 April 2005 07:17 am, Francois Bonnarel wrote:
> > Dear Brian,
> > 
> > <	If you like, I would be happy to post the schema and an example 
> > <	(catalog) which uses it all.
> > <
> > <	cheers,
> >     Yes please, do it
> > François
> > 
> > =====================================================================
> > Francois   Bonnarel               Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg
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> > 
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> > Fax: +33-(0)3 90 24 24 25       E-mail: bonnarel at astro.u-strasbg.fr
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