Volute: vocabularies repository

[Norman Gray]

Hello folks.

I floated the idea, a while back, of creating a shared repository to  
host the detailed vocabularies work.  I've now done this, at Google  
Code, and I've imported into that the current (pretty alpha) state of  
the Note draft and the SKOS vocabularies.

At <http://volute.googlecode.com> I've set up a Subversion repository  
and a commit list.  Anyone can check out the code read-only; anyone  
who wants to write to it need only send me their google login name  
and I'll add them to the list.

What's there is the current state of the document, and SKOS versions  
of the A&A, AOIM, UCD and IVOAT vocabularies.  The first three are  
from Alasdair, the last is from Rick (I know Rick also has a UCD  
vocabulary: I put in Alasdair's because it was geographically nearer,  
and I'll let Rick and Alasdair sort out what to do next).  There's no  
mapping stuff there at present -- Alasdair's working on this, and  
working with the SKOS folk currently developing that component of the  
standard.

There's a README at the top which should indicate what to do to build  
the whole lot from scratch.  If you just want to look at the built  
version, then you can download a v0.01 release from <http:// 
volute.googlecode.com/files/ivoa-vocab-0.01.tar.gz>.

The commits list is volute-commits at googlegroups.com <http:// 
groups.google.com/group/volute-commits>; I can very easily add a  
discussion list if anyone's interested.  It'd probably be a very good  
idea to have a discussion list, to keep minutiae off the  
semantics at ivoa list.

It's only the vocabularies work that's here right now, obviously.   
However I've structured what's there so that the same repository can  
be used for any trans-IVOA/inter-project work needing a repository,  
which is otherwise a bit of a fuss to set up.

A little while I suggested:

>     30 Nov: shared project set up and populated with at least WD text
>     7 Dec: some SKOS-generating code in the repository, and a set  
> of technical issues/disagreements identified
>     19 Dec: loose agreement on technical issues, and a first  
> version of a WD document with normative SKOS appendices released to  
> the IVOA documents process from the shared repository

I think we're not too far adrift from that.

Now, back to arguing about plurals...

Norman


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