TAP v1.1 - little request

[Mark Taylor]

no, those items are just displayed as plain text.
You can cut'n'paste them though.

On Sat, 5 May 2018, James.Dempsey at csiro.au wrote:

> H Mark,
> 
> If one were to populate the DOI in a resolvable URL format (e.g. https://doi.org/10.4225/08/5abe45d3e5b02 ) as is now recommended by data cite, would it appear as a clickable link in TOPCAT?
> 
> Cheers,
> James Dempsey
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: dal-bounces at ivoa.net <dal-bounces at ivoa.net> on behalf of Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk>
> Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018 6:57 AM
> To: Alberto Micol
> Cc: IVOA DAL
> Subject: Re: TAP v1.1 - little request
> 
> Alberto,
> 
> I don't want to talk for DAL on this, but let me note that it is
> quite legal to include extra columns beyond the TAP-specified ones
> in the TAP_SCHEMA tables.  So with the existing TAP 1.0 (or TAP 1.1)
> there's nothing to stop you adding a doc_url (or whatever) column
> to TAP_SCHEMA.tables.  Moreover if you do this, TOPCAT at least
> will display this information to the user.  As an example,
> the ARI-Gaia service (ivo://uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/tap) has
> a non-standard column row_count in TAP_SCHEMA.tables, and
> you can see the content of this in the Table tab of topcat's
> TAP window - see the attached screenshot.  I wonder if adding
> a non-standard column in this way, without requiring any change
> to the standard, would be sufficient for what you want to do.
> 
> Also, there are no "optional" columns in the TAP_SCHEMA tables,
> so adding one could be considered disruptive.  Some of the
> columns are permitted to contain nulls though.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Thu, 3 May 2018, alberto micol wrote:
> 
> > Dear DALers,
> >
> > Sorry to come so late with this request, with TAP v1.1 already in its RFC phase.
> >
> > Would it be possible to add a new optional column to the TAP_SCHEMA.tables
> > where the data provider could store the URL pointing to some documentation
> > (e.g. a release description, an ADS article, a DOI landing page, etc.)
> > about that table?
> >
> > Thanks and sorry again,
> > Alberto
> >
> >
> 
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> Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
> m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-9288776  http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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