Re: [xml-dev] XML for Astronomy/Astrophysics

[Jeff Rafter]

> I was wondering if anyone had some good links / mailing lists for XML for
> Astronomy. I spent some time on google and the Cover Pages (both having
good
> results) but a lot of what I have run into has led back to
> http://xml.gsfc.nasa.gov/  which seems good, and at least recently
updated.
> Many of the other formats and lists are considerably older and language
> dependent (e.g. in AIML there is type="java.lang.String"). I am looking
for
> something pretty generic I suppose, but if someone has a hot link for
> marking up radio telescope output I am game for any language (even IDL).
To
> push the question a little further-- has anyone seen SVG used in
conjunction
> with such data?
>

Not quite what you asked for, but here is a link to some work on using topic
maps to unify astronomical data bases.

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~aam/science/topicmaps/ucd.html

Cheers,

Tom P