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[Doug Tody]

Guy - Can you say more about this?  Is this for time series data (light
curves) or for synoptic imagery?  Assuming the latter, how does
it differ from SIAP with a time-based query, or slices through a
time cube?   - Doug


On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Guy Rixon wrote:
> AstroGrid also have a time-based, SIAP-like protocol which we are producing
> for the Solar Physicists. It's called Simple Time-series Access Protocol.
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Roy Williams wrote:
>
>>>     SIA upgrade planning and related topics
>>> 	- accessing data by time range
>>
>> We are especially interested in this as part of the Palomar-Quest
>> survey, since it has repeated passes. I have made some kind of a
>> bastard SIAP with time for myself, based on regular expressions for
>> string-matching of dates.
>>
>> Every dataset is labeled by date-string, eg 20060425 means today. And
>> so the regular expression "200604*" means everything from April 2006,
>> ".*" means everything, or you can be specific with "20040423|20040522"
>> means anything from either of those dates.
>>
>> Another alternative is to give an exact time (eg MJD) to each image,
>> and specify a time interval that way.
>>
>> Roy
>>
>>
>> California Institute of Technology
>> 626 395 3670
>>
>
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