proposal: mtypes for exchanging specific types of registry resource.

[Mark Taylor]

I've now added TOPCAT capabilities to send and receive both the general
voresource.loadlist and the specific voresource.loadlist.* MTypes as well.
This isn't in the public release yet, but a pre-release copy is available
at
    ftp://andromeda.star.bristol.ac.uk/pub/star/topcat/pre/

It seems to talk happily to Noel's VODesktop snaphot from April in both
directions.

I've also updated the MType documentation on the wiki; these 
voresource.loadlist.* subtypes are now described alongside
voresource.loadlist itself at

    http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SampMTypes#voresource_loadlist_and_subtypes

Mark

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Noel Winstanley wrote:

> Hi,
> A snapshot of VOExplorer that implements the voresource messages is available from 
> http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Astrogrid/DesktopAstroGridSnapshots
> 
> cheers
> noel
> 
> On 19 Mar 2010, at 15:03, Mark Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Noel and perhaps others,
> > 
> > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Noel Winstanley wrote:
> > 
> >> So, I'd like to provide a series of subtypes of voresource.loadlist -
> >> each of these have the same message parameters and semantics, but the
> >> intention is that the set of vo resources is constrained in some way.
> >> 
> >>  voresource.loadlist.cone - a set of resouces, where each has a cone-search capability
> >>  voresource.loadlist.tap - a set of resources that each has a TAP capability
> >>  voresource.loadlist.siap - a set of resources that each has a SIAP capability.
> >>  voresource.loadlist.ssap - each has a SSAP capability.
> >>  voresource.loadlist.vospace - each has a vospace capability.
> > 
> > I'm considering subscribing to these MTypes from TOPCAT.
> > 
> > Are you currently sending any of these MTypes from VOExplorer (or Ravioli)?  
> > 
> > Is anybody else?
> > 
> > Mark

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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