Data and services

[Tony Linde]

> How about "AstroDataService"?  

Or to follow Peter's lead: SiderealDataService :)

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org] 
> On Behalf Of Ray Plante
> Sent: 12 September 2003 20:36
> To: registry at ivoa.net
> Subject: RE: Data and services
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Tony Linde wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Coverage has three components: spatial, spectral, and temporal.  A 
> resource need only map to one of these to have "Coverage".  
> 
> > 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?
> 
> We should definitely allow this pointer; however, we should 
> not require 
> that the data collection be registered separately.  
> 
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Robert Hanisch wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> How about "AstroDataService"?  
> 
> cheers,
> Ray
>