Feedback on Harvesting - providing metadata to harvest

[Martin Hill]

Hi all

We at the ROE were trying to fill in some example metadata for the 6dF archive, 
for harvesting, but are finding it difficult to understand what the fields are 
for.  Is there a document describing each element?  We found this:

http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VO/schemas/xs3p-v0.8.3/VOResource-v0.8.3.html

But it doesn't really go into enough detail for non-registry experts - eg the 
element "Identifier" is given as "Unambiguous reference to the resource 
conforming to the IVOA standard for identifiers" but we can't tell without more 
searching about what the scope of the resource is (table? single archive? all 
the archives?).

Cheers,

Martin

Tony Linde wrote:
> Can I ask someone from NVO & AstroGrid (Ray & Kevin?) to provide feedback on
> this list regarding the implementation of harvesting in those projects over
> the last few months. Ditto for anyone else who has tried it out.
> 
>>From informal feedback, I understand that the standard we adopted was not
> detailed enough to develop an interface. So, what worked, what didn't work,
> what was easy, what was difficult, what do we need to specify to make an
> implementation unambiguous?
> 
> At the end of the feedback, please add recommendations that will help us
> revise the standard.
> 
> Can I set a deadline of 2 weeks for this feedback, so 13 Feb?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony. 
> 
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Martin Hill
Software Engineer
AstroGrid @ ROE
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