Data and services

[Robert Hanisch]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Linde" <ael at star.le.ac.uk>
To: "'Ray Plante'" <rplante at poplar.ncsa.uiuc.edu>; "'Robert Hanisch'"
<hanisch at stsci.edu>
Cc: <registry at ivoa.net>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: RE: Data and services


> I'd forgotten about Coverage. Maybe SkyService should stay so that when
> solar and stp people create their schemas they can have a SolarService and
> STPService.
>
> Maybe we need a DataService which includes a pointer to the root data
> collection plus any other data-ish metadata and then SkyService,
> SolarService and STPService can inherit from that?
That might be ok.  Though perhaps we don't have to build this structure just
yet.

> And should Coverage be renamed to SkyCoverage? Or is there enough
> commonality between 'coverage' in the disciplines to deal with the
> differences with one or two optional elements?
Solar, Planetary, and STP will have different concepts for coverage.

Bob