VOResource 1.2 Request for Comments

[Renaud Savalle]

Dear IVOA,

On behalf of Markus Demleitner (the Editor) I invite the IVOA community 
and TCG to review the Proposed Recommendation: *VOResource: an XML 
Encoding Schema for Resource Metadata Version 1.2*

The RFC page is available at 
https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOResource12RFC

*VOResource* is an IVOA standard for describing astronomical resources 
(data collections, services, registries, tools...) within the Virtual 
Observatory. It defines an XML interchange format for use with 
registries, and lays the foundations upon which description schemes for 
concrete resources are built in various VOResource extensions.

Earlier this month, at the Registry Session during the Malta Interop 
Meeting, the editor presented a talk about this document, followed by a 
discussion. Further details can be found here: 
https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpNov2024Registry 
<https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpNov2024Registry>.

Here is a brief summary of the changes from VOResource Recommendation 1.1:

- You can now use DOIs (or other identifier schemes like orcid) wherever 
we have a ResourceName so far, which includes relationship, authors, and 
the like.

- We now spell out what "using the UAT" for our subject keywords mean. 
If you publish resource records, this probably means that you will have 
to update them, as it is unlikely that they already have UAT keywords, 
let alone the with the right syntax.

- If you machine-readably declare your licenses, you should now use SPDX 
URIs.

- The bibliographic source can now be declared machine-readably with 
DOIs, too (before, there were only bibcodes).

We would greatly appreciate your time in reviewing and providing 
comments on this document, which serves as the foundation for our 
standards in publishing VO resources.

Thanks,

Renaud Savalle (chair of the Registry WG)


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