Writing Registry Records for IVOA Standards
Standard authors using IVOIDs in their standards (for instance, to give
capability identifiers) must, others should submit registry records for
their documents. This page tries to guide you through this process.
Starting a record from scratch
The format of the registry record is prescribed by
StandardsRegExt, but
trying to work through that document and all the prerequisites just to
write a record for your standard would be overkill.
Rather, start from a
template
that is provided as part of the
ivoatex
authoring system; of course, it can be used without ivoatex, too.
If working with ivoatex in the recommended way, authors should have
their standards record under version control, too. It is recommended to
say
svn copy ivoatex/stdrec-template.xml ExampleStandard.vor
and edit
ExampleStandard.vor.