Draft draft 0.04

Folks,

I've put a vocabularies-0.04 at <http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ivoa/vocabularies
>, with the corresponding issues list at <http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ivoa/vocabularies/issues
 >. The latter has been extended by a couple of issues that seemed to arise in the last few days, and has the first two issues [masterformat-1] and [distformat-2] marked as provisionally resolved.

I've made a variety of edits to the document, reflecting the discussions of the last couple of days. In particular, there is now rationale included for the above provisionally resolved issues.

There's now an explicit list of requirements for a conformant vocabulary, and I've moved Rick's 'golden rules' to sit beside the requirements.

Question: Do you agree that I've included adequate mention of the issues of the last couple of days? If there's an issue you thought was live but which isn't acknowledge here, please do say (I've an uncomfortable feeling I've forgotten something important).

Ed and Brian in particular: I've referred to ontologies only to the extent of saying this isn't one of them. Pace the on-going list discussion about this, is there particular text you'd like me to include here? Also, I realise I refer to the `Ontology of astronomical object types' WD -- is there a corresponding reference I should add for your work?

If there's text you want to add, mail me, or I can add you as a committer to the repository (initially, I guessed that more folk would want to do the latter, but it's fairly obviously unlikely).

See you,

Norman

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