FAIRsharing record for: Virtual Observatory Data Modeling Language ... : VO-DML ...

• Main Author: FAIRsharing Team
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: FAIRsharing 2018
• Subjects: Astrophysics and Astronomy; Data model; DML
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25504/fairsharing.ocxwxa; https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.OcXwxA

This FAIRsharing record describes: The Virtual Observatory Data Modeling Language (VO-DML) 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 ... : The source of this description is the metadata record on FAIRsharing.org, an educational and informative resource that describes and links databases, standards, and data policies. FAIRsharing also creates collections of these resources and recommendations of databases and standards based on 3rd party data policies. ...