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Registry Working Group WP3 (Metadata Specifications)

Specifications Development

This page provides links to the current set of accepted specifications as well as those currently under development.

New as of 16 July 2004: VOResource v0.10 released as external working draft; see below.

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Resource Metadata for the Virtual Observatory

This document (euphemistically referred to as "RM") defines standard metadata concepts that describe resources, independent of any particular encoding format. It also describe the general resource model upon which the concepts are based.

Current Released Versions

Recommendation

"Resource Metadata for the Virtual Observatory" v1.01 (BobHanisch, Ed.)

Internal Versions Under Development

None at this time

Deprecated Versions

• PR v1.01
• PR v1.0
• WD v0.82
• WD v0.81
• WD v0.8
• WD v0.7
• WD v0.6
• WD v0.5

Identifiers

An IVOA Identifier is a standard URI that serves as a globally unique reference to a resource.

Current Released Versions

Proposed Recommendation

"IVOA Identifiers" v1.1

Discussion

IVOAIdentifiersV11Disc

Internal Versions Under Development

Recommendation

Identifiers-20050302.html

Discussion

IVOAIdentifiersV11Disc

Deprecated Versions

• WD v1.1
• PR v1.0
• WD v0.2
• [[http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/WD/Identifiers/Identifiers-20030830.html[WD v0.1]]

VOResource: XML Schemas based on the RM

Current Released Versions

Working Draft

VOResource v0.10 and its standard extensions: VOResourceV010

Internal Versions Under Development

None at this time

Assuming there are no major problems encountered by v0.10, it is expected that the subsequent release will be the VOResource core schema, version 1.0, and the extension schemas will evolve independently.

Deprecated Versions

• WD v0.9: VOResourceV09
• See VOResourceEarly for links to version 0.8.3 and earlier.

Other Schemas Under Development

• Space-Time Coordinates by ArnoldRots (as of 21 June 2004):
  • Model WD Specification: STC.pdf
  • UML Diagrams: STC_UML.pdf
  • See links to schemas and examples in this posting to the DM list