Vocabulary: http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/voresource/date_role Author: Markus Demleitner Date: 2022-03-15 Supercedes: VEP-012 New Term: Inspected Action: Addition Label: Last Inspected Description: Dates with this role indicate when the resource has last undergone a non-formal inspection, typically by a human, as to whether it is still working as expectable, both technically and as regards science content. Relationships: Used-in: The registry record ivo://edu.gavo.org/hd/gavo_addpms (and most other IVOA document records; cf. ) Rationale: The prototypical case is for tutorials, where the date of the last inspection as given in the document's registry record (in curation/date) is a good indication for the amount of work that might be necessary to use the tutorial in teaching VO technology -- or, in self-study, how many deviations of actual behaviour are to be expected. The directory of registered texts at http://dc.g-vo.org/VOTT lets users sort the results by this date ("Date Checked"). It is conceivable that data centers use this concept for data services, too, for instance as part of a certification procedure, but the author does not see that as an immediate need. This term is not intended for use with vr:validationLevel. For one, even validation level 4 only applies to the registry record rather than the resource itself, and hence the concept does not apply anyway. In addition, validationLevel elements are, if at all, added by harvestable full registries which must not modify the records outside of the validationLevel elements and hence could not add curation/date elements anyway. The non-standard, mixed-case form of the concept identifier is for consistency with the other terms in the vocabulary, which again preserve the form of DataCite date roles. Discussion: This concept was first proposed as #Validated. During the Semantics Calls 6 telecon, it was found that this identifier is too close to the existing #Valid (with an entirely different meaning), and that a different identifier would also clearly distance the concept from vr:validationLevel. After some consideration, #Inspected seemed to suitably convey the intended usage.