Standards in the RofR

[Markus Demleitner]

Dear Registry,

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:31:30AM +0200, Markus Demleitner wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:23:26AM -0400, Zografou, Panagoula wrote:
> > In Registry Interfaces 1.1 paragraph 4.1 I see the following:
> > 
> > "The Registry of Registries also contains the canonical VOResource
> > descriptions of the most recent versions of VOResource standards and
> > extensions themselves, which are of type vstd:Standard. "
> > 
> > This is correct in principle but the contents of this set in the RofR are
> > out-of date.
[...]
> What I believe we[1] should do:
> 
> (1) Write one or two template records and add them to ivoatex (of
> course, they'd be intended for use outside of ivoatex, too).
> Essentially, all the authors need to do is copy the template, fill
> out what's variable, and submit it (preferably maintaining their
> document in version control, too).
> 
> (2) Write a little wiki page with a couple of sentences on the why
> and how of filling out these templates, including instructions of
> where to send them.

Well... since I carelessly wrote up that programme I think I've
volunteered by default, so I've taken some steps to cover (1) and
(2).

A draft for the wiki page, including a link to the template, is now
at http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/WriteAStandardsRecord
(and it's already linked from our WG home page).

I'd really appreciate if people could look at that and see whether
that's marginally understandable, reasonably entertaining and, most
of all, good enough that people will actually produce these records
in the future.  As always, fixes to the text are welcome (inquire for
volute access if necessary, but I also take diffs).

When that's done and nobody protests otherwise, I'd move on to

> (3) Send out a notification that there's now this howto to
> interop at ivoa.net.

together with Yulie's original collection of where things are missing
or out of date.

Cheers,

        Markus