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<p>Dear colleagues,<br>
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<p>This is an announcement for the Proposed Recommendation: </p>
<p><b>VOResource: an XML Encoding Schema for Resource Metadata
Version 1.2</b></p>
<p>which is now available on the IVOA document collection at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ivoa.net/documents/VOResource/20241015/index.html">https://ivoa.net/documents/VOResource/20241015/index.html</a></p>
<p><strong>VOResource</strong> is an IVOA standard for describing
astronomical resources (data collections, services, registries,
tools...) within the Virtual Observatory. It <span
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an XML interchange format for use with registries</span>, and <span
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the foundations upon which description schemes for concrete
resources are built in various VOResource extensions.</span></p>
<p>Please note that the editor Markus Demleitner will give a talk
about this PR at our Interoperability meeting in Malta: cf the
agenda at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpNov2024Registry">https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpNov2024Registry</a>
(remote attendance will be possible with Zoom).<br>
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<p></p>
<p>The formal RFC process will likely begin after the meeting.<br>
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<p>Here is a brief summary of the changes from Recommendation 1.1:<br>
<br>
* You can now use DOIs (or other identifier schemes like orcid)
<br>
wherever we have a ResourceName so far, which includes <br>
relationship, authors, and the like. <br>
<br>
* We now spell out what "using the UAT" for our subject
keywords <br>
mean. If you publish resource records, this probably means
that <br>
you will have to update them, as it is unlikely that they
already <br>
have UAT keywords, let alone the with the right syntax. <br>
<br>
* If you machine-readably declare your licenses, you should now
use <br>
SPDX URIs. <br>
<br>
* The bibliographic source can now be declared machine-readably
with <br>
DOIs, too (before, there were only bibcodes). <br>
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<p>Interested ? Please consider attending the Registry session. See
you in Malta !<br>
</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
</p>
<p>Renaud Savalle, chair of the Registry WG</p>
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