Resource Metadata RFC

This document will act as RFC centre for the Resource Metadata v1.1 Proposed Recommendation.

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Comments from the Technical Coordination Group

TWG members should add their comments under their name. The deadline for comments is 27 Oct 2006.

Note: RM v1.01 is a REC already; see sect. 7 for summary of changes since then.

Marc Allen (Applications IG)

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Francoise Genova (Data Curation & Preservation IG)

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Bob Hanisch (Standards & Documentation WG)

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Gerard Lemson (Theory IG)

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Jonathan McDowell (Data Models WG)

In section 3.2, I don't like the idea that there is Creator and Creator.Logo. I'd like these fields to be the utypes of the data model for RM, and that would be cleaner if you either change Creator to Creator.Name or change Creator.Logo to CreatorLogo (no dot).

You have ReferenceURL which must be a URL, but I think there also ought to be a ReferenceBibcode and I don't see one.

I realize these technical comments are late, and I will approve the rec even if you choose not to adopt them.

Reagan Moore (Data Curation & Preservation IG)

I did not see a place in the SDSS example for listing the current release number (DR5). Is there a way to specify the version of the sky survey easily? A second question is how to simply define whether a resource is online or offline? The format field example was not clear. Is a separate identifier needed? Finally there are a few minor questions: For the identifier "Type", define the term EPO For the indentifier "facility", theoretical data is more typically associated with a project than the compute resource where they generated the simulation. Perhaps the "instrument" for theoretical data is the name of the compute resource.

I approve the recommendation even if these minor changes are not incorporated.

Francois Ochsenbein (VOTable WG)

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Pedro Osuna (VOQL WG)

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Ray Plante (Resource Registry WG)

Submitting Chair: no comments.

Andrea Priete-Martinez (Semantics WG)

I approve.

Guy Rixon (Grid & Web Services WG)

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Doug Tody (Data Access Layer WG)

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Nic Walton (GGF Astro-RG)

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Roy Williams (VOEvent WG)

In section 3.2, for Contact information, I think there should be a place for telephone number. Also, I think multiple telephone numbers and emails should be allowed. This is because VOEvent schema clones the Contact schema from RM, and in that case it would be crucial to be able to contact the author of an event.

Once this change is made, I would add my vote for Recommendation.