Virtual Acoustic Object (VAO) Standard: Version 0.4.0
Virtual Acoustic Object (VAO) Standard: Version 0.4.0
VAO 0.4.0 is the first public release of the preservation-oriented exchange standard for evidence-rich virtual representations of musical instruments and other acoustic objects.
The release includes:
- the normative specification and conformance model;
- versioned core, scientific, multimodal, physical-instrument, playable, spatial, acoustics, dynamic-delivery, and deterministic-runtime profiles;
- Draft 2020-12 JSON Schemas;
- JSON-LD, RDF vocabulary, SHACL, and the version-specific mapping to MODAVIS Ontology Network 0.1.0;
- reference validation, deterministic carrier, migration, linked-data, and runtime tools;
- positive, negative, adversarial, and reproducibility fixtures and tests.
The attached ZIP is the deterministic source bundle produced from the signed release tag. Verify it with the accompanying SHA-256 file.
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