IVOA standards records in FAIRsharing: Data Access Layer Working Group

Thu Jul 5 10:31:22 CEST 2018

Dear Mark,

Thank you very much for telling me your concerns. If IVOA or any of the working groups would like any of the records hidden until they can be checked, then please just let me know. However, for your information it is standard policy within FAIRsharing to make a record public as soon as one of our curators creates it. If a record is not yet maintained, then a user of the site can see this and therefore is aware that this extra level of community curation will not have happened yet. Also, although any registered user can submit a claim request for any record, those claim requests are vetted and themselves need to be approved. Our curators would not approve a claim request by someone not confirmed to be a developer of that resource.

I did attempt to contact IVOA through the ivoadoc at ivoa.net address on 9 May and again on 21 May, but had switched to the working group email addresses when I didn't have a reply to my earlier emails. I am happy to use you as the primary method of communication for these records, if this is what you would like.

I am more than happy to answer any questions you might have.

Regards,
Allyson

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Knowledge Engineer, FAIRsharing & ISA-Tools
University of Oxford e-Research Centre
http://www.fairsharing.org/communities
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Please note that I work part time, mainly Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. If the matter is urgent, you may wish to email contact at fairsharing.org instead.

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From: Mark Allen <mark.allen at astro.unistra.fr>
Sent: 05 July 2018 08:55:12
To: Allyson Lister
Cc: dal at ivoa.net; contact at fairsharing.org
Subject: Re: IVOA standards records in FAIRsharing: Data Access Layer Working Group

Dear Allyson,

I must say that I am surprised to learn about these records being published before contacting the IVOA and that you have made them open for anyone to claim.

The IVOA will discuss the information that you have sent.

Mark Allen  (IVOA Chair)

On 4 Jul 2018, at 13:05, Allyson Lister <allyson.lister at oerc.ox.ac.uk<mailto:allyson.lister at oerc.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:

Dear IVOA team,

I’m contacting you on behalf of FAIRsharing (https://fairsharing.org, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/17/245183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baw075), the online registry of scientific data standards, databases and policies. Our aim is to make your resource as visible as possible to as large an audience as possible.

We have created a number of FAIRsharing records describing and collecting your standards. All IVOA standards have been grouped into a single collection available at https://fairsharing.org/collection/IVOA. The individual URLs for those IVOA standards within your working group are also listed below.

To ensure our information is as correct and up to date as possible, would you (as groups and/or individuals) consider claiming these records? Due to the large number of records that we have for IVOA, once you have created the user account(s) you wish to use, I am happy to directly add those users as maintainers for the records myself, to save you some time. Alternatively, once logged in, you can click on the "Claim Ownership" buttons for each record to request ownership of the record.

Claiming a record as either a group or an individual also gives you the opportunity to make changes to the record yourself, allowing you complete control over how your resource is displayed in FAIRsharing. In addition, if you claim a record(s) as an individual, you can link the record to your ORCID.

FAIRsharing is about making your resource discoverable to a variety of users, such as journals and publishers, researchers and service providers, research and infrastructure projects and programmes, as well as curators, librarians, funders and other policy makers and data scientists (https://fairsharing.org/communities). A contact is essential should they have any questions about your resource.

Group: DAL

* DALI - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001148
* DataLink - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001149
* Simple Cone Search - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001153
* SIA - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001154
* SLAP - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001155
* SSA - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001156
* STC-S - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001150
* TAP - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001209
* TAPRegExt - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001151
* ADQL - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001152
* SNI - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001160
* SimDAL - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001157
* VOEvent Transport Protocol - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001158
* SODA - https://fairsharing.org/bsg-s001159

Regards,
Allyson

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Dr. Allyson Lister
Knowledge Engineer, FAIRsharing & ISA-Tools
University of Oxford e-Research Centre
http://www.fairsharing.org/communities
http://www.isa-tools.org/person/allyson-lister/
ORCiD: 0000-0002-7702-4495

Twitter: @allysonlister
http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com

Please note that I work part time, mainly Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. If the matter is urgent, you may wish to email contact at fairsharing.org instead.

Mark G. Allen
Director CDS
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