<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear IVOA DMers,<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The discussions at the Madrid Interop, as well as the work done on implementations since then (e.g., Python reference implementation, Image and STC2 Data Models) have provided much feedback to the VO-DML document(s).</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">You can find the latest version of the VO-DML document on volute:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://volute.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/projects/dm/vo-dml/doc/VO-DML-WD-v1.0.pdf" target="_blank">http://volute.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/projects/dm/vo-dml/doc/VO-DML-WD-v1.0.pdf</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>A new revision of the Mapping document will follow soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Feedback is welcome as usual.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a list of changes:</div><div><div><span style="font-family:Arial">- Reviewed Abstract.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Added a new introduction/executive-summary and renamed old introduction as Data Integration</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Reformulated reference to UTYPEs in Data Integration section. Moved part of that in the Mapping Document.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Actualized Data Integration section (removed conditionals, reference to the history of the document, and so on).</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Removed section 5.3 (UTYPEs).</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Renamed Referencable -> Referable.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Clarified that <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">vodml</span>-id is only required to be unique, but SHOULD be human-readable according to the grammar in Appendix D.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Removed Section C.4 (<span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">VODML</span>/I)</span></div><div><font face="Arial">- Added a "NORMATIVE" qualifier to the section describing the language itself.<br></font><span style="font-family:Arial">- Model does not extend Package anymore. The section about Model is the normative section changed the most, in order to clarify the use of name-prefix, and the use of Model imports.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Added 'version' in ModelProxy.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Removed 'ivoid' in ModelProxy.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Clarified that only models directly used must be imported.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Clarified uniqueness of DataType instances, and that the spec does not mandate whether they should be immutable or not.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Clarified the VO-UML attribute notation.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Added few clarifications to the Collection/Composition and Reference section (navigation of instances, life cycles).</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Subsets/Redefines: I took the name "subsets" but I explicitly added that this element combines UML's "redefines" and "subsets" concepts.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial">- Removed isOrdered section.</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Omar.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Omar Laurino<br>Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory<br>Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics<div><font color="#999999">100 Acorn Park Dr. R-377 MS-81</font></div><div><font color="#999999">02140 Cambridge, MA</font><br><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><a value="+16174957227" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">(617) 495-7227</a></span></div></div>
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