[Esip-documentation] ACDD 1.3 approval vote initiated

[Nan Galbraith via Esip-documentation]

I'm going to have to vote no, mainly because of the remaining circular
definitions of the terms for roles - creator and publisher.

For creator (or creator_name), we had agreed on 'the person principally
responsible for originating this data' - I know there was a lot of 
discussion on this but I had no idea we were rolling back to the
original non-definition, 'the person principally responsible for
creating this data'.  My understanding was that some people had been
adverse to changing from creator to creator_name, but were fine with
'person principally responsible for originating the data'.

Since the versions and discussion pages have disappeared, I can't 
confirm the wording that I thought we'd agreed upon, without paging
through dozens of emails with subject lines that don't reflect the contents.

One of the main problems with the original version of ACDD, IMHO, was
that the definitions were not useful or clear. If we're not going to
fix that, then I don't see much use in updating the spec.

Regards - Nan



Quoting John Graybeal via Esip-documentation 
<esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org>:

> Hello everyone,
>
> On the Documentation Cluster call today, we initiated the vote on
> approving ACDD 1.3. As agreed, we will keep this vote open to
> Documentation Cluster members until end of the day December 31,
> 2014. You can vote on whether to approve the convention at
> http://doodle.com/t7tni9ab2a2xhnmf.
>
> As our validation that no one is spamming that link, once voting has
> closed I'll copy the final names and votes into an email to this
> list, so that everyone can see their vote was recorded correctly.
>
> Other results of the discussion:
>
> We clarified that none of the 1.2 versions were ever approved or
> recommended for use; the recommended version is 1.1 as of today, and
> will be 1.3 once it is approved. (Some have informally recommended
> 1.3 already.)
>
> We made a minor change to the document; and I agreed to make one
> other change to the associated documentation once version 1.3 is
> approved:
>
> The minor adjustment was to move creator_url to the Recommended
> section, to be consistent with the publisher_url recommendation.
>
> The documentation change is that non-normative documents which are
> referenced by 1.3 in the Additional Materials section (things like
> mappings, ISO translation, order of precedence, etc.) will have
> appropriate notations added to the top of each document, reflecting
> that they are historical references and not normative or necessarily
> current. As these are not normative, I feel comfortable changing
> them as seems appropriate, subject to further review of course.
>
> And with that, our changes to the ACDD 1.3 voting document have been
> completed, and I thank everyone for your patience, participation,
> and persistence throughout!
>
> Please vote!
>
> John
>
>
>
> ---------------
> John Graybeal
> Marine Metadata Interoperability Project: http://marinemetadata.org
> MMI Ontology Registry and Repository: http://mmisw.org/orr
> email: jbgraybeal at mindspring.com
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