Work files

Workfiles gather in a single file all the information from the Unit files. They are used as an intermediate format by the editor to :

• retrieve the reference version of NUVA exposed from the GitHub pages
• download or upload local copies of the state of work when modifying the NUVA core concepts.

They can be used to exchange a work version between contributors. Yet all submissions for a next version of NUVA must take the form of Unit files.

The workfile is a JSON file with the following structure.

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	version ## see below
	vaccines *
		type ## abstract|real|deprecated
		label ## text
		comment ## text
		valences ## Only if abstract
			- VALxxx * ##valence identifier
		instanceOf ## Only if real or deprecated, vaccine identifier
		created ## date in format YYYY-MM-DD
		modified ## date in format YYYY-MM-DD
	valences * 
		label ## text
		shorthand ## text
		vtype: ## text
		parent: ## valence identifier
		created: ## date in format YYYY-MM-DD
		modified: ## date in format YYYY-MM-DD

The fields have the same definition as in the Unit files.

Versioning

The reference version produced by the GitHub automated processus is versioned with the date of the most recent modification of a Unit file.

The local copies are versioned with the version of the reference version used to produce them, followed by /WORK. If several local copies are kept, they can be differentiated by their filenames , that have the form nuvadataYYYY-MM-DD-HHMM.json.