Vocabularies RFC

[Norman Gray]

Greetings, all.

The Vocabularies RFC period is due to end at the end of this week.


Progress:

I've been in touch with a colleague who works with A&A, to encourage  
them to contribute some comments on the suitability and coverage of  
the document.

It occurs to me that we might want to similarly tickle the AVM folk,  
whose vocabulary we quote, and who as vocabulary authors, are another  
important part of the document's audience.  I've forgotten who it is  
who has the links with the AVM folk -- was it one or both of Ray and  
Rick? -- but perhaps one of them could draw the document to their  
attention (sorry: I should have thought of this earlier).

On the RFC page <http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VocabulariesRFC 
 >, I've pointed to a comment from one of the SKOS authors, which  
refers to a rather technical point about notations.  This has prompted  
some discussion on the SKOS list, which might have some small impact  
on the SKOS document, and which might not be resolved by the end of  
this week.

Realistically, therefore, I think we may expect (or even hope for)  
some comments after the RFC period ends.  But....



Timetabling:

At a more meta level, I'd like to raise a question about the  
document's standardisation schedule.  We decided, back in Trieste,  
that we should push the document towards standardisation even though  
that would happen before SKOS itself is standardised (a bit of a wart,  
standards-wise, and requiring a disclaimer/apology about this at the  
head of the document).

Well, what with one thing and another, we're now in mid-October, with  
SKOS still due to complete its standardisation process at the end of  
December.  That's sufficiently close that the argument for  
standardising them out of order -- that we didn't want to be held back  
by the SKOS process -- is looking a bit thin.

Can I suggest, therefore, that we postpone the TCG review and the  
further progress consequent on that, until after the SKOS  
standardisation in December.  As soon as that REC is published, I can  
issue the post-RFC document with the reference to the SKOS REC, and  
send it for TCG review.

Does anyone have any comments on that?  I'll take silence as assent.

All the best,

Norman


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Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester