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---+ VOUnits RFC This is the RFC centre for the IVOA VOUnits Proposed Recommendation. * The RFC Review period is four weeks: 20 August 2012 to 17 September 2012 * The text of the PR is at http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/VOUnits/index.html The VOUnits document is intended to describe existing and recommended practice for writing units specifications in IVOA protocols: * _Abstract_: This document describes common practices in manipulating units in astronomical metadata and will define a means of consistent representation within VO services. The core of the document contains the rules for writing string representations of unit labels, called VOUnits. Existing commentary: * There has been some discussion of the document during its drafting on the [[http://www.ivoa.net/pipermail/semantics/][Semantics mailing list]] * There was some early discussion at DiscussionOnVOUnits. *Note on implementations*: This document does not define a protocol, but summarises existing practice, and recommends good practice for future IVOA specification. In consequence, the existing software which parses units specifications (summarised in the document) can be regarded as 'implementations' of the document. In addition, the [[https://bitbucket.org/nxg/unity][Unity]] library, which was written in part to validate some of the document's conclusions, can be regarded as an implementation of the standard. ---- ---++ Comments Please follow roughly the following pattern: ---+++ One comment (yyyy mm dd) Comment, comment comment. --IVOA.NormanGray (signature) ---++++ One response (yyyy mm dd) Response, response, response [...] ---- ---++ Comments from TCG (WG and IG chairs) ---+++ Applications (Mark Taylor and Pierre Fernique) ---+++ Data Access Layer (Patrick Dowler and Mike Fitzpatrick) ---+++ Data Model (Jesus Salgado and Omar Laurino) ---+++ Grid&Web Sevices (Andreas Wicenec and André Schaaff) ---+++ Registry (Gretchen Greene and Pierre Le Sidaner) ---+++ Semantics (Norman Gray and Mireille Louys) ---+++ VOEvent (Matthew Graham and John Swinbank) ---+++ Data Curation & Preservation IG (Alberto Accomazzi) ---+++ Knowledge Discovery in Databases IG (Giuseppe Longo) ---+++ Theory IG (Franck Le Petit and Rick Wagner) <br/> <!-- * Set ALLOWTOPICRENAME = IVOA.TWikiAdminGroup -->
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