Registering client-side applications

[John Taylor]

Hi,
Is anyone in the registry working group looking at how we can register 
client-side applications?  The sort of use case I have in mind is:
a user searches the registry via some portal for a visualization tool 
that (say) displays multi-D datasets.  After selecting a suitable 
application the portal offers to download and install the software (and 
maybe even launches it with the dataset he was working on).

This doesn't seem to fit into the examples on
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOResourceV010
so I think it would require a new extension to the VOResource schema. 

I'd be interested to hear if anyone has already thought about the sort 
of meta-data we'd need to record for client-side apps.  Bob - excuse me 
mailing you directly as well as posting to the forum.  Noel Winstanley 
tells me that you have already worked on this in a previous life and may 
have some ideas about it.

Regards,
John

[Cross posting to apps to get the topic started, but please reply only 
to registry at ivoa.net]


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