Trial 0.8.4

[Ray Plante]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Tony Linde wrote:
> > By analogy for ADQL, we would describe the columns as part of the 
> > description of the service (e.g. SkyNode) that accepts ADQL 
> > (under the 
> > Capability element).  
> 
> You've lost me. Where would you put columns in Capability?

See ConeSearch-v0.1.xsd (& SIA-v0.5.xsd) and adil-v0.8.3.xml.  Look for 
VOTableColumns.

This is not to say that you shouldn't describe columns in a description of 
a table (collection) resource.  On that front, I think we (or rather a 
group that would prefer to see it this way) should define a separate 
TableCollection resource class.  That is, we need not have conformity 
IVOA-wide at this level.  This would be an excellent example of one 
project extending the schema for their own purposes.  

> > For the purpose of our next round of demos, it is NVO's 
> > thinking that we 
> > do not plan to support locating tables based on UCDs; so, for 
> > the moment, 
> > we're not planning to capture this info in our registries.  
> 
> Is there a description of what NVO plans to do with the registries
> somewhere?

Sorry--I'm not trying to surprise you here.  We actually discussed this 
issue just yesterday on our telecon, so, no, there is not a document where 
all of this is written down.  I think, though, that this is all 
negotiable, but I don't think we can settle everything before we see each 
other face to face.  

cheers,
Ray

PS: I'll be signing off in the next hour or so to make my way to the 
airport.  I'm looking forward to buying you a beer!