2A/spec changes
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This is a record of changes, the earliest ones recorded being those agreed at the meeting on 2008-07-10.
When new things are being discussed for possible change, they will be listed on the Leap2A/developments page.
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2011
The documentation has been moved to a Joomla installation at http://www.leapspecs.org/2A/
The links below have been changed to point to the new documentation where appropriate.
2010 developments
2010-09-15
One extra value, "suspended", has been added for the leap2:status element's leap2:stage.
See the list e-mail.
2010-08-23
The literal properties of publication have been regularised to match with resource. The atom:author and atom:contributor elements always refer to the author of the Leap2A item, not to the author of or contributor to the publication or other resource, if different. Leap2A now specifies Dublin Core terms to represent the authors of or contributors to attached resources.
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2010-07-26
The category "Website" added to the selection type.
2010-07-16
Introduced two new Leap2A elements: leap2:myrole and leap2:roleid, for use explicitly with affiliation and publication items, possibly in activity and resource items, but not with organizations.
2010-07-15
Explicitly specified Atom's link rel="self" within a resource item entry of resource type Web.
2010-07-14
Introduced a new type, affiliation, as a subtype of activity.
Clarified that atomOutOfLineContent (that is, use of the src attribute within a content element) is deprecated for export. All 2010/07 Leap2A exports are to use link rel="enclosure" as now clearly documented. However, importing systems should process imported atomOutOfLineContent where the link is to an attached file, and interpret it in the same way as if the src URI were instead in a link rel="enclosure", and the resource had no description, but is just summarised in the summary element.
2010-07-01
Changes made in leap2:spatial.
- Unstructured part must now be treated in the same way as xhtml content, not left in untagged plain text as they were previously.
- This means that formatting, links, maps, etc. can be represented.
- Clarified that multiple spatial elements are allowed, e.g. for multiple addresses.
2010-06-30
The version string is now defined for the 2010-07 version.
2010-06-29
- Intermission introduce as a common category for activity items. See Leap2A/categories/common_item.
- Practice has been clarified for the literal id element.
2010-05-27
atom:contributor has been included as a relationship and a literal.
2010-04-14
A new leap2 type has been agreed: publication, as a subtype of resource.
2010-04-14
The way in which attachments are specified has changed. The overall situation is described in files, with corresponding changes in resource, relation and elsewhere.
2010-04
The 2010 version uses a single namespace / abbreviation, "leap2", standing for "http://terms.leapspecs.org/", replacing both the "leap" and "leaptype" namespaces / abbreviations in the 2009-03 version. The intention is for this not to change in the future.
2010-03
The previously discussed clarifications about assessments have been incorporated.
2009-03 version
Changes above are not incorporated into the 2009-03 version, while changes below are there in the 2009-03 version.
2010-02
The orthography of the specification was changed from "LEAP2A" to "Leap2A". This is retrospective, so that all versions will be called Leap2A, but will take some time to ensure that all appropriate instances of "LEAP2A" have been changed.
2009-07-14
- A clarification was added to literals, clarifying that empty leap2:date elements, while not being encouraged, are not prohibited.
2009-03-25
- The leap2:field attribute values "im" and "voip" have been removed from persondata
2009-03-16
- The term "Assessor" was added to the person type category scheme
2009-03-12
A first stable version was drafted at http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Leap2A_specification.
Structured content was revised and agreed.
2009-03-07
- The term "Politics" was added to the life area category scheme
- The term "Note" was added to the common item category scheme
- The term "Printed" was added to the resource type category scheme, and the term "Physical" redefined to exclude printed materials.
2009-02-27
Outcomes of the Huddersfield meeting.
- Recognised that there is no need for a separate ordered part relationship, merged into the ordinary part relationships.
- display_order removed as an optional attribute for persondata and orgdata elements.
- A common item category scheme introduced, for personal statements and other items that may come up in the future.
- A person type category scheme introduced, to distinguish significant types of person.
- The documentation for resources changed to clarify the rules for how to include short summary descriptions (in the summary element) and how to link to alternate representations.
2009-02-06
Reasonable consensus reached on structured content, included in the spec.
2009-02-05
Introduced organization as a separate type, in parallel with person. As person does, organization also has its own data structures - see Leap2A/organizational data. Organizational addresses also to be held in spatial elements, as with person.
2009-02-04
Reached a reasonably stable consensus on the person type, to hold names, contact details, and similar data relevant to CVs and presentations, and it corresponding data structures, specified in Leap2A/personal data.
Agreed that addresses will be held in spatial elements, as addresslines, postcode and country.
2009-01-09
"has ordered part" and its inverse were respecified so that they use atom:link elements like all the other Leap2A relationships, with extra attributes. (Later withdrawn and instead merged with ordinary part relationships.)
2008-12-05
Added leap2:activetime for time spent engaged in an activity.
2008-11-28
All the dc: namespace names changed to their leap: namespace names, for ease of reading and programming. It will remain clear that the names are exact equivalents. (Now changed to leap2:)
2008-11-05
Whereas W3C date time formats were specified everywhere, it was clarified that atom:published and atom:updated require rfc3339. See Time fields.
2008-08-07
The name of the spec is now LEAP2A. This means that "PIOP" refers just to the project, which is less confusing and more appropriate. In particular, "PIOP_categories" was changed to "LEAP2A_categories".
2008-07-16
The life area category scheme introduced, in response to categories appearing in an example from Nottingham.
2008-07-10
types
Goal was dropped as a separate type, as no one was using it. Effectively, the goal is wrapped in to the plan.
relationships
Because we want to allow all relationships to be listed at both ends, attends was introduced as the inverse of attended by.
The reference and presentation relationships were also dropped (for now at least) as not currently needed. Reference is implied by other relationships. The concept of presentation was not clearly agreed in any case.
Added a new relationship, reflects on, to distinguish entries in which reflections on other things are recorded.
The proposed sequencing relationships (follows, precedes, next) were not being used and were abandoned. A new element, leap2:has_ordered_part was introduced. (This was later withdrawn.)
categories
The language ones have been moved back to being just possible, because they have not been tested in use yet.
A new one was introduced for selection type.
