Year: 2008
Type: standard
Abstract: This document defines the high level metadata necessary to describe the physical parameter space of observed or simulated astronomical data sets, such as 2D-images, data cubes, X-ray event lists, IFU data, etc. The Characterisation data model is an abstraction which can be used to derive a structured description of any relevant data and thus to facilitate its discovery and scientific interpretation. The model aims at facilitating the manipulation of heterogeneous data in any VO framework or portal. A VO Characterisation instance can include descriptions of the data axes, the range of coordinates covered by the data, and details of the data sampling and resolution on each axis. These descriptions should be in terms of physical variables, independent of instrumental signatures as far as possible. Implementations of this model has been described in the IVOA Note available at: http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/Notes/ImplemtationCharacDM/ImplementationCharacterisation-20070813.pdf Utypes derived from this version of the UML model are listed and commented in the following IVOA Note: http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/Notes/UTypeListCharacterisationDM/UtypeListCharacterisationDM-20070625.pdf An XML schema has been build up from the UML model and is available at: http://www.ivoa.net/xml/Characterisation/Characterisation-v1.11.xsd
Language: English
Subfield: Instrumentation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1933609382