Description
| - The UCD standard is an officially sanctioned and managed vocabulary
of the IVOA. The normative document is a simple text file containing
entries consisting of tokens (for example em.IR), a short
description, and usage information (syntax codes which permit
UCD tokens to be concatenated). The form of the tokens implies a
natural hierarchy: 'em.IR.8-15um' is obviously a narrower
term than 'em.IR', which in turn is narrower than
'em'.
Given the structure of the UCD1+ vocabulary, the natural
translation to SKOS consists of preferred labels equal to the original
tokens (the UCD1 words include dashes and periods), vocabulary tokens
based on them (for example, "emIR815Um" for
'em.IR.8-15um'), direct use of the definitions, and the syntax codes
placed in usage documentation.
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