desise format for vocabularies

[Mark Taylor]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Markus Demleitner via semantics wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 09:40:23AM +0100, Mark Taylor wrote:
> > > As the deprecated key is string typed then is
> > >
> > >   “deprecated” : null
> > >
> > > also a true value?
> >
> > I'd say yes; though the VocInVO text "present and mapped to a reserved value"
> > seems a bit obscure here.
> 
> Now that you expose it like that, it *does* seem somewhat obscure.
> What I meant to say was "do not look at the value" (and hence, yes,
> null as a value would count; I'd even consider this a good choice.
> Let me sidestep the question of "undefined", as I prefer to hope that
> has not made it into JSON).
> 
> Perhaps "present and mapped to an arbitrary value"?

Yes that would be better.  I wouldn't say that an erratum is required
here, but if there's a later version is should be reworded.

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Mark Taylor  Astronomical Programmer  Physics, Bristol University, UK
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