URI*
http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/refframe
http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/refframe
Accrual method
IVOA Vocabulary Enhancement Proposals See more...
Accrual policy
https://ivoa.net/documents/Vocabularies/20230206/REC-Vocabularies-2.1.html#tth_sEc5.2.1 See more...
Bug database
https://github.com/ivoa-std/Vocabularies/issues
https://github.com/ivoa-std/Vocabularies/issues
Contact*
Baptiste Cecconi (baptiste.cecconi@obspm.fr)
Elsa David (elsa.david@obspm.fr)
Object creation date property
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
Submission date
October 15, 2025
Curator
Batiste Cecconi
Elsa David
Deprecated
false See more...
Description*
A collection of reference frames in common use in astronomy, organised by top-level categories (equatorial, galactic, etc). These concepts are used in VOTable's COOSYS, in SimpleDALRegExt's PosParam type, and of course in the Coords data model. Where no more precise reference are given, http://www.iaufs.org/res.html is often of help., A collection of reference frames in common use in astronomy, organised by top-level categories (equatorial, etc). These concepts are used in VOTable's COOSYS, in SimpleDALRegExt's PosParam type, and of course in the Coords data model. Where no more precise reference are given See more...
Documentation
https://ivoa.net/documents/REC/DM/STC-20071030.html#_Toc181531803
https://ivoa.net/documents/REC/DM/STC-20071030.html#_Toc181531803
Endorsed by
IVOA
Creator
Cresitello-Dittmar, M.
Demleitner, M.
Rots, A.
Formality level
http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#thesaurus
http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#thesaurus
License
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Representation language*
OWL See more...
Syntax
http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/Turtle
http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/Turtle
Homepage
http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/refframe
http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/refframe
Generic type
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#Vocabulary
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#Vocabulary
Mailing list
semantics@ivoa.net See more...
Object modification date property
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
Natural language
Publisher
IVOA
Creation date*
February 22, 2022
Repository
https://github.com/ivoa-std/Vocabularies/tree/master/refframe
https://github.com/ivoa-std/Vocabularies/tree/master/refframe
Source
https://www.ivoa.net/rdf/refframe/2022-02-22/refframe.html See more...
Status*
production See more...
URI Lookup Endpoint
https://data-ontoportal.obspm.fr/search?ontologies=REFFRAME&require_exact_match=true&q=
https://data-ontoportal.obspm.fr/search?ontologies=REFFRAME&require_exact_match=true&q=
Version information
2022-02-22 See more...

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