VO-DML specification document

[Arnold Rots]

I have said this before, but I object to the misspelling of "referenceable".
"Referencable" really is wrong.

  - Arnold

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Gerard Lemson
<lemson at mpa-garching.mpg.de>wrote:

> Dear data modelers
>
> After urging from the DM chairs, I would like to direct your attention to
> the VO-DML page on the IVOA wiki:
> http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VODML
>
> There you will find links to the VO-DML specification document and the
> associated technical xml schema  and schematron files.
> Notice that the document is one of the three documents that came from the
> UTYPEs Tiger Team. This one, in particular, describes how to express Data
> Models in a standard, machine-readable way.
> Please read the comment at the start of the spec file for info which parts
> are not quite done (mainly some paragraphs in intro have to still be
> added).
>
> The core part can be commented on freely.
>
> The wiki page needs some updating with links to, and descriptions of, some
> reference implementations.
> Much code has been available since Heidelberg (and before) as part of the
> prototyping effort mandated after that Interop. Stable code includes a
> bunch
> of XSLT scripts for validatioon, java code generation, and hypertext
> documentation generation which includes DM figures and cross-references
> between elements. For two UML tools (Magic Draw CE 12..1 and Modelio) there
> are also scripts available to generate VO-DML documents from a properly
> designed UML representation. Pointers to the code and to the documentation
> is or will be available on the aforementioned wiki pageasap.
>
> Implementations related to the mapping of VO-DML to VOTable, like the
> "VO-DML Mapper" (http://gavo.mpa-garching.mpg.de/dev/vodml-mapper/)
> created
> for helping users and data providers through a point-and-click interface
> and
> the photometry service prototype presented in Hawaii are not included,
> since
> they target a different document. But the vo-dml mapper in particular shows
> how one can make use of the machine readable DM documents at runtime and
> might be seen as another proof of concept implementation also for this
> specification.
>
> We thank those that, in the past year, have sent comments to the editors
> directly, but we would urge members to address comments directly to the dm
> mailing list.
>
> Best regards
>
> Gerard Lemson
>
>
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