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Adrian Damian authored and Adrian Damian committed Oct 18, 2024
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places: From common designations of units to labels for physical
quantities, from common names of reference frames and time scales to
mutually understandable subject categories, from relationship types
between VO resources (``this service publishes images from A and spectra from B'') to fixed names for the messengers that produced the signals
recorded.
between VO resources
(``this service publishes images from A and spectra from B'') to fixed names
for the messengers that produced the signals recorded.
The VO's semantics standards provide the basis of forming such
consensual ``vocabularies'', which are, at their root, sets of labeled
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interoperable with the rest of the semantic web by adopting the W3C's
Resource Description Framework RDF.
The vocabularies themselves are usually introduced by standards that use them and are then maintained on the VO's repository of
The vocabularies themselves are usually introduced by standards that use
them and are then maintained on the VO's repository of
vocabularies\footnote{\url{http://www.ivoa.net/rdf}}. In some cases,
however, we go beyond RDF, usually because the labels have an intrinsic
syntax. In these cases, the Semantics WG issues separate standards
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qualifications. For instance, \ucd{phot.mag;em.opt.V} denotes a
magnitude in the V band, \ucd{phot.flux;em.opt.V} a flux in the same
band. The UCD standard defines how these compound UCDs are built, and
the UCD list defines restrictions as to where in complete UCDs atoms canbe used: some atoms can only be ``primary'', others are only available
the UCD list defines restrictions as to where in complete UCDs atoms can be
used: some atoms can only be ``primary'', others are only available
as qualifiers. For instance, \ucd{stat.error} can only appear at the
start of a UCD, which ensures that ``Error in redshift'' will be encoded as \ucd{stat.error;src.redshift} rather than the other way round.
start of a UCD, which ensures that ``Error in redshift'' will be encoded
as \ucd{stat.error;src.redshift} rather than the other way round.
The UCD ecosystem is completed by another standard on how new atoms are
adopted to the list of UCDs.
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