VOSI 1.1 initial working draft

[Brian Major]

Dear GWS,

An initial working draft of version 1.1 of the IVOA Support Interfaces
(VOSI) document has been posted:

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http://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOSI/20160129/

The aim of this version is to offer a more scalable mechanism for viewing
table metadata.  As per the agreements reached in Sydney, the document
describes how this can be achieved by:

    - Allowing services to implement and enforce a detail=min parameter on
the /tables endpoint on which on a subset of table metadata (which does not
include columns) is returned.
    - By allowing clients to view the full metadata of a single table on
the /tables/<table-name> endpoint.

Pat Dowler, along with editing this version of the document (thanks!), has
prototyped the functionality into the CADC TAP service.  Below is the
tables endpoint:

http://www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/tap/tables

You can see how the request above enforces the minimum view by issuing a
redirect with the detail=min parameter included:

http://www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/tap/tables?detail=min

Clients can get full details on single tables by adding the table name to
the path.  For example:

http://www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/tap/tables/ivoa.ObsCore


For your convenience, a view of the diff on the source .tex file can be
seen here:

https://volute.g-vo.org/viewvc/volute/trunk/projects/grid/VOSI/VOSI.tex?r1=3233&r2=3232&view=diff&diff_format=f


Cheers,
Brian
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