Allowing VO people to do a concrete job with VO-DML tools and to get answers to the following questions:
How to build a model
How to reuse a model
How to annotate existing data
How to annotate dynamically generated data
How to parse annotated VOTables
Checking that the current VO-DML workflow fulfill the expectations of the community
Cost of the VO-DML implementation for archive curators
Cost of the VO-DML implementation for client developpers
Sustainability
Documentation
A basic VO-DML: Beginner's Guide has been generated to assist data modelers get acquainted with the procedures involved with generating VO-DML compliant models.
A basic VO-DML: Import Guide has been written to assist data modelersto get acquainted with the model imports in Modelio.
Templates for the 3 supported modelers (Modelio, Magic Draw and Altova) can be found here
The ivoa model defining the basics VO-DML data types can be found here
Models
Lots of model are availble in [[https://volute.g-vo.org/svn/trunk/projects/dm/][Volute]. The VO-DML serialization can usally be found in the vo-dml sub-folder. Below is the most achieved model sample.
Some toy models are available in the vodml project