help understanding RM schemas

[Ray Plante]

Hey Martin,

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Martin Hill wrote:
> Is there a document describing each element?  We found this:
> 
> http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VO/schemas/xs3p-v0.8.3/VOResource-v0.8.3.html

Use http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VO/schemas/vomdoc-v0.9/VOResource-v0.9.html
instead.  Similar documents for the other metadata schemas are accessable 
via 
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IVOARegWp03#VOResource_a_Resource_Metadata_S

These documents are meant to be a kind of metadata dictionary for humans.  
If you have suggestions/criticisms on content or format that would make it 
more useful, I would love to hear them.

> But it doesn't really go into enough detail for non-registry experts - eg the 
> element "Identifier" is given as "Unambiguous reference to the resource 
> conforming to the IVOA standard for identifiers" but we can't tell without more 
> searching about what the scope of the resource is (table? single archive? all 
> the archives?).

Elizabeth got your specific question.  For other possible questions, I 
just posted a Note I got started on before the holidays but couldn't 
finish once things started heating up.  It's meant to be a tutorial on the 
metadata schemas.  You can access my draft at:

   http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VO/schemas/vomdoc-v0.9/Note-RMSchemas.html

It's still fairly incomplete, but perhaps it is helpful as I continue to 
hack on it.

cheers,
Ray