New STC-in-VOTable draft

[Arnold Rots]

no comment from me at this time - I am trying to catch a plane to
Europe :-)

  - Arnold

Markus Demleitner wrote:
> Dear DM folks, dear VOTable folks,
> 
> I've put up another draft of the STC-in-VOTable note.  See the (now
> cleaned-up) page at
> http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/STCInVOTable (or go
> directly to
> http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/note_stc_20100420.pdf).
> 
> Most important news:  
> 
> * There's now a single container for all items belonging to one 
>   coordinate system as discussed before.
> * There's now a "HOWTO" section at the beginning of the document that,
>   I would hope, will be enough for most people.
> * The examples have been changed -- what's included now is already
>   generated (from slightly extended STC-S) by my STC and VOTable
>   libraries (currently only available from SVN), so whatever's
>   in there should at least be consistent.
> * New special-casing for the AbsoluteTime substituion group that in
>   effect drops the format specification by default.
> * There's now a rule how to include the data model URI.
> 
> What next?
> 
> Well, as usual protest, insults, or -- gasp! -- moderate praise can
> be left at the wiki.  However, we're nearing the Victoria interop,
> and I'd just *love* it if we could reach some consensus there (which
> will probably be helped by the fact that I'm not going to be there).
> So, ideally I'll put out another draft for Victoria given some
> feedback.
> 
> To speed the whole process up, Francois Ochsenbein has suggested a
> short telecon; no date has been set yet, but if you're interested to
> participate, please let me know -- if possible, include your schedule
> (in UTC).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>          Markus
> 
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