Vocabularies Release 0.90; WD 1.0 imminent

[Norman Gray]

Rick and Andrea, hello.

On 2008 Feb 14, at 09:20, Frederic V. Hessman wrote:

>> UCD is widely used in the VO and represents the most important  
>> current vocabulary to which many other vocabularies are going to  
>> want to link.  For this reason alone, there MUST be a SKOS version.

No objection from me.  If you can think of some use-case text that  
could sit alongside the list in <http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ivoa/vocabularies/vocabularies-0.90.xhtml#usecases 
 >, then the document would surely be improved.

> However, Norman points out correctly, that this version must be  
> maintained, and the only real option is that the UCD working group  
> do it.

Andrea:

> I agree. As chairman of the UCD-sci group, in charge of the
> maintenance of the UCD list, I think that this group can take the
> charge of maintaining both the unformatted plain list AND the
> skosified one

Sounds good.

> I interpreted your enthusiasm as a helpful and needed impetus to get  
> on with the process of providing a basis-vocabulary soon after the  
> proposal is accepted.

No problem -- I suppose it retrospectively illustrates the value of a  
clearly articulated issues list!

> FIVE, since A&A, AOIM, UCD1, IAU-93 and constellations will be  
> finished and immediately useable.   IVOAT should be mentioned, but  
> as work-in-progress and hence different.

I suppose that, depending on the precise timing, it might be worth  
including a snapshot in the Vocabularies standard, but I'll leave that  
up to you when we get to PR stage.

> Obviously, A&A should be ultimately maintained by A&A, AOIM by the  
> informal outreach group, UCD by the UCD working group, and the  
> document should make this very clear.

I've added a little text which might clarify this.

> We should be able to get IAU-93 into a form which represents ALL of  
> the Shobrook&Shobrook content, in which case the vocabulary is - by  
> definition - normative and finished.   Should we find some minor  
> errors, I'm sure we can find someone to make sure it's corrected,  
> well-documented, and put back into the IVOA's (still unknown!!!)  
> vocabulary collection.

Alasdair added the IAU-93 vocabulary to the collection in the  
repository, and he and I have adjusted the SKOSification a little  
since then, but it'll be distributed without semantic changes.

Andrea:

> I think the issue on maintenance is closed.

Agreed, and I've updated the issues list accordingly.

> Coming to the draft, I think we are now too cautious in setting the  
> version
> to .04, as we were too optimistics calling the very first version  
> 1.0 !!!
> It is time to officially present to the WG the Vocabularies document  
> as
> WD v1.0
> Do you agree? If so, I'll send an edited v1.0 to the doc repository.

I've released a 0.90 (with a big minor-version-number hike which will  
please Rob!).  I can't upload it to the wiki because www.ivoa.net  
seems to be ignoring me.  I'll keep trying, though.

There are still a few yellow-marked TODOs in there, but they can be  
resolved during the WD process.

So if all the editors are happy, and if no-one else shouts very  
promptly, I'll make a 1.0 release and hand the tarball over to Andrea  
for upload.

All the best,

Norman


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