Proposal for a quantity based data model in the Virtual Observatory
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We propose the beginnings of a data model for the Virtual Observatory (VO) built up from simple ``quantity'' objects. In this paper we present how an object-oriented, domain (or namespace)-scoped simple quantity may be used to describe astronomical data. Our model is designed around the requirements that it be searchable and serve as a transport mechanism for all types of VO data and meta-data. In this paper we describe this model in terms of an OWL ontology and UML diagrams. An XML schema is available online.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0312604,
title = {Proposal for a quantity based data model in the Virtual Observatory},
author = {Brian Thomas and Edward Shaya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0312604},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
This work originally appeared as a poster paper at ADASS XIII