- ID:
- ivo://ivoa.net/std/vocabularies
- Title:
- Vocabularies in the VO
- Short Name:
- vocabularies
- Date:
- 02 Jun 2023 00:30:00
- Publisher:
- IVOA
- Description:
- In this document, we discuss practices related to the use of RDF-based consensus vocabularies in the Virtual Observatory, that is the creation, publication, maintenance, and consumption of hierarchical word lists agreed upon within the IVOA. To cover the wide range of use cases envisoned, we define different vocabulary types for informal knowledge organisation on the one hand, and strict hierarchies of classes and properties on the other. While the framework rests on the solid foundations of W3C RDF, provisions are made to facilitate using IVOA vocabularies without specific RDF tooling. Non-normative appendices detail the current vocabulary-related tooling.
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- ID:
- ivo://ivoa.net/std/VODataService
- Title:
- VODataService: a VOResource Schema Extension for Describing Collections and Services
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2016 08:20:00
- Publisher:
- IVOA
- Description:
- VODataService refers to an XML encoding standard for a specialized extension of the IVOA Resource Metadata that is useful for describing data collections and the services that access them. It is defined as an extension of the core resource metadata encoding standard known as VOResource [Plante et al. 2008] using XML Schema. The specialized resource types defined by the VODataService schema allow one to describe how the data underlying the resource cover the sky as well as cover frequency and time. This coverage description leverages heavily the Space-Time Coordinates (STC) standard schema [Rots 2007]. VODataService also enables detailed descriptions of tables that includes information useful to the discovery of tabular data. It is intended that the VODataService data types will be particularly useful in describing services that support standard IVOA service protocols.
- ID:
- ivo://ivoa.net/std/VODML
- Title:
- VO-DML: a consistent modeling language for IVOA data models
- Date:
- 31 May 2018 09:00:00
- Publisher:
- IVOA
- Description:
- This document defines a standard modelling language, or meta-model, for expressing data models in the IVOA. Adopting such a uniform language for all models allows these to be used in a homogeneous manner and allows a consistent definition of reuse of one model by another. The particular language defined here includes a consistent identification mechanism for model which allows these to be referenced in an explicit and uniform manner also from other contexts, in particular from othe IVOA standard formats such as VOTable. The language defined in this specification is named VO-DML (VO Data Modeling Language). VO-DML is a conceptual modeling language that is agnostic of serializations, or physical representations. This allows it to be designed to fit as many purposes as possible. VO-DML is directly based on UML, and can be seen as a particular representation of a UML2 Profile. VO-DML is restricted to describing static data structures and from UML it only uses a subset of the elements defined in its language for describing "Class Diagrams". Its concepts can be easily mapped to equivalent data modelling concepts in other representations such as relational databases, XML schemas and object-oriented computer languages. VO-DML has a representation as a simple XML dialect named VO-DML/XML that must be used to provide the formal representation of a VO-MDL data model. VO-DML/XML aims to be concise, explicit and easy to parse and use in code that needs to interpret annotated data sets. VO-DML as described in this document is an example of a domain specific modeling language, where the domain here is defined as the set of data and meta-data structures handled in the IVOA and Astronomy at large. VO-DML provides a custom representation of such a language and as a side effect allows the creation and use of standards compliant data models outside of the IVOA standards context.
