citing IVOA standards

[Séverin Gaudet]

In the current IVOA Report and Roadmap document undergoing final  
revision in the TCG, there is a TCG topic proposed for discussion  
called "Standards numbering nomenclature" (http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/TCGStandardsNumberingNomenclature 
). This mail thread supports the need for that discussion.

Séverin


On Jun 16, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Norman Gray wrote:

>
> Igor, hello.
>
> On 2008 Jun 16, at 22:38, Igor Chilingarian wrote:
>
>> 1) IVOA Recommendation.
>
>> 2) IVOA Note.
>
> I agree that in most formal circumstances, it would only be  
> appropriate to cite a Recommendation, and either of the forms of  
> citation mentioned in this thread would be able to make clear the  
> nature of the document.  However, there doesn't seem to be any need  
> to forbid other documents, even Notes, from being cited, if the  
> citing author thinks it appropriate.
>
>> I like Norman's idea of using a version number in the bibcode,  
>> however there may be some drawbacks connected to the possible  
>> hierarchical nature of version numbers, i.e. 0.9.3b or something  
>> like this.
>
> One of the peculiarities of the IVOA document process is that all  
> version numbers are constrained to be of the form n.nn (0 <= n <=  
> 9).  I happen to think this prescription is a bit nuts (a version  
> string is a tuple of integers, not a real number), but in this case  
> it has the fortunate side-effect that an IVOA document version  
> number is always four characters.
>
>> Why I decided to raise again this issue: the reason is simple (and  
>> stupid) -- I don't want to lose my citations / publications,  
>> neither wish my colleagues do so. And I do think that being a co- 
>> author of a IVOA standard is much more than to write yet-another- 
>> {A&A|MNRAS|ApJ|etc.}-paper and it requires much more efforts and  
>> much more resposibility.
>
> That sounds like an _excellent_ reason to me.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Norman
>
>
> -- 
> Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
> Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester
>