Vocabularies document in PR

[Norman Gray]

Greetings, all.

Version 1.13 of the Semantics WG's Vocabularies document is now  
available as a Proposed Recommendation.  It's available at <http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/Vocabularies.html 
 > and <http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/PR/Semantics/Vocabularies-20080729.html 
 >

The document has been improved in various ways, but has not had major  
structural or technical changes from the versions previously available  
as a WD.

There is, it turns out, a last-minute complication concerning the  
namespace of the sample vocabularies included with this document.   
Current best practice suggests that such a namespace URL should be  
unversioned, and this was confirmed at one of the Semantics WG  
sessions at the Trieste interop.  This may or may not conflict with  
the current policies for the management of the www.ivoa.net URL space,  
and until this is definitively worked out, the document and its  
associated vocabularies have been released with a versioned namespace  
URL (see section 2.4, and the beginning of section 4, for some  
discussion of this).

Norman Gray
Semantics WG vice-chair

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Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester