who is actively developing with VOResource?

[Martin Hill]

Very briefly, the AstroGrid Datacenter is expecting to provide and 
handle limited parts of it.  There are things it doesn't include that we 
need to be able to handle, but I haven't worked out in detail what that 
is.  Will probably surface internally end of December, and publish here 
soonish afterish.

Ray Plante wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I'd like to hear who is involved in using the VOResource metadata and how 
> things are going.  I've been in intense communication with people here in 
> the NVO project, but I haven't heard too much from abroad.  Could some 
> non-NVO people post a few words?
> 
> As my previous message indicated, issues are coming up that we will need 
> to deal with, and it would be good to hear about who is dealing with them 
> and how.
> 
> There are various issues that have come up in the NVO experience so far:
>   *  The Coverage mark-up is a temporary stand-in, and it hasn't been well 
>      reviewed and exercised.  Is it sufficient?
>        o  there was a suggestion that we alter it to allow 
>           multiple, alternative spatial coverage descriptions where one in 
>           the ICRS frame would be required.
>   *  There remains a problem in VODataService-v0.4 with the use of a fixed 
>      attribute.  
>   *  There was a suggestion that there could be an easier/better way to 
>      identify specific kinds of services (e.g. SIA) than with 
>      the StandardID element.  
> 
> thanks,
> Ray
> 
> 
> 

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