purl, vocabularies and ivoa.net

[Marco Molinaro]

Dear Semantics,
Dear Theory,
(IVOADoc in CC)

during the session this Tuesday, in the "SKOS in VO THeory" talk, it
was proposed a change for the vocabulary for Theory VO with patterns
pointing to

http://purl.ivoa.net/ConceptName

Now (apart from DNS aspects that can be managed on the DNS+IVOADoc
side - that's why IVOADoc is in CC), ivoa.net has already a branch

http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/

that is meant to store vocabularies (Datalink one is already there).
Also, the theory vocabulary will actually physically be in Paris, i.e.
purl.ivoa.net will simply redirect to it.

This email is to try to understand exactly how we can make this things
work together, namely:
- the purl.ivoa.net and its redirection to Paris (but possibly it
should survive in ivoa.net and be used by other parties)
- the relationship between purl.ivoa.net and www.ivoa.net/rdf

Ideas, comments, .... are welcome, so that we can also start thinking
of DNS changes in Trieste (hosting the IVOA.net domain and related
DNS) and maybe in IUCAA (where the web part of the ivoa.net is
physically located.
I can take care of connecting with IVOADoc and ivoa.net sysadmins for
the technical part.

Cheers,
    Marco