Datalink feedback I: standardID(s)

[Patrick Dowler]

If we are going to version the standardID, shouldn't it be:

ivo://ivoa.net/std/DataLink/1.0#links

(or maybe v1.0 in there)???


Pat


On 19/03/14 02:46 AM, Markus Demleitner wrote:
> Dear DAL group,
>
> As requested by Pat, I'll post my datalink feedback issue by issue so
> as to enable easier discussion.  This first installment is about the
> standardID,
>
> ivo://ivoa.net/std/DataLink#links
>
> -- my gripe is that it's not versioned.  There's something to be said
> for that, but as this ID is basically the only way right now to
> discover the version of a datalink response and clients may well wish
> to find that version out, I think it should really be:
>
> ivo://ivoa.net/std/DataLink#links-1.0
>
> Though this is a bit different from the pattern we've been discussing
> in other places (which would end in Datalink#1.0 or so), I have to
> say I like the flexibility we gain by not referencing an
> endorsedVersion but rather something else a lot[1].
>
> As this identifier must reference something, I've prepared some
> StandardsRegExt XML for DataLink that could (and I believe should) go
> into the registry essentially now.  In this, the thing referenced by
> the identifier is a StandardKey; referencing those with fragments has
> already been done in TAPRegExt, so I'd say we're fine here.
>
> Would you have a quick look at it to chekc if I got things basically
> right?  If there's no protest: Pat, I think as the main author you
> should formally ask Ray to put it into RofR.
>
> So, here's my take:
>
> --------------------------8<-----------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!-- The resource record for Datalink, intended to reside in RofR
> -->
> <ri:Resource
>    xsi:type="vstd:Standard"
>    created="2014-03-19T09:18:00"
>    updated="2014-03-19T09:18:00"
>    status="active"
>    xmlns:vr="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0"
>    xmlns:vstd="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/StandardsRegExt/v1.0"
>    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>    xmlns:ri="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/RegistryInterface/v1.0"
>    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0
>      http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0
>    http://www.ivoa.net/xml/StandardsRegExt/v1.0
>      http://www.ivoa.net/xml/StandardsRegExt/v1.0
>    http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0
>      http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0">
>
>    <title>IVOA DataLink</title>
>    <identifier>ivo://ivoa.net/std/DataLink</identifier>
>    <curation>
>      <publisher>IVOA</publisher>
>      <creator>
>        <name>IVOA DAL WG</name>
>        <logo>http://www.ivoa.net/icons/ivoa_logo_small.jpg</logo>
>      </creator>
>      <date role="representative">2014-02-28</date>
>      <version>1.0</version>
>      <contact>
>        <name>IVOA DAL WG</name>
>        <email>dal at ivoa.net</email>
>      </contact>
>    </curation>
>    <content>
>      <subject>Data retrieval</subject>
>      <subject>Virtual observatory</subject>
>      <description>
>        DataLink describes the linking of data discovery metadata to services
>        that provide access to further detailed metadata, the data itself, and
>        services that perform operations on the data.
>      </description>
>      <referenceURL>http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/DataLink</referenceURL>
>    </content>
>    <endorsedVersion status="wd">1.0</endorsedVersion>
>
>    <!-- As we may want to define several different capabilities within
>    datalink, we define several versioned terms as targets for standardID
>    and similar.
>    -->
>    <key>
>      <name>links-1.0</name>
>      <description>
>        An endpoint that returns DataLink 1.0 metadata on links and
>        related services.
>      </description>
>    </key>
>
> </ri:Resource>
> --------------------------8<-----------------------------
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>            Markus
>
> [1] Full disclosure: I like it in particular as it would let us have
>
> ivo://ivoa.net/std/DataLink#access-1.0
>
> if my Bambi eyes finally worked and we included standard data access
> parameters in Datalink.
>

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