TAP document implementation issues. Section 2.6

Paul Harrison paul.harrison at manchester.ac.uk
Mon Oct 5 01:28:19 PDT 2009


On 2009-10 -01, at 21:39, Douglas Tody wrote:

>> 5. I'm lost as to what I need to do to support VOSI  
>> getCapabilities.  As far as I can tell there's nothing that  
>> describes what the capabilities record for a TAP service should  
>> look like.  Does it just reuse the
>
> This is correct.  The TAP specification does not yet define the
> Capabilities metadata.  This is a major omission but will have to
> wait for the next version.  More prototyping is needed to understand
> better what is optional (e.g. advanced ADQL functionality), before
> we can fully define a standard Capabilities matrix for TAP.


what is required for TAP getcapabilities metadata is fully described  
in  http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/VODataService/ - VOSI Capabilities  
are identical to the Capabilities elements of registry entries.

Paul



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