volute: a shared repository for the VO

The volute repository is intended to act as an area for inter-project collaboration between participants in the IVOA. Joint work on ad-hoc projects can be a bit of a fuss if participants don't come from the same group (such as AstroGrid, Euro-VO, NVO, and so on), and so can't easily get access to a common code repository; and sometimes wikis just aren't enough.

Slices currently here:

• The Semantics group's vocabulary project, /projects/vocabularies; Norman Gray looks after that, and there are more details at VocabulariesHome
• The Theory group's work, /projects/theory; contact Franck Le Petit, and see TheoryHome. The Theory group uses Volute as a repository for draft of the VO-Theory standards (SimDM, SimDAL, ...) as well as the VO-URP source code developed by Gerard Lemson and Laurent Bourges, allowing to quickly set up a SimDB.
• Rick's also hosting a PHP VOSpace endpoint for iRODS under /projects/grid.
• The 'REST in the VO' draft is hosted here, under /projects/rest-in-vo, under the auspices of the Grid and Web Services group
• Files related to the Applications group's SAMP work, under /projects/samp - currently just the document text for collaborative/transparent editing; Mark Taylor looks after this.

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What does volute mean?

Nothing very deep -- it's a nice word, and it starts with 'VO'. A volute is (or if you're Italian, volute are) part of the decoration within Ionic capitals; they're also a type of sea-snail.

More to come...