roadmap

[Tony Linde]

Hi Ray,

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 3. Agree modified Registry Harvesting draft (RH) v0.2
     30-May-2004

 4. Create draft Registry Interface spec (RI) v0.1 (incl harvesting & query)
     30-May-2004
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Since RI includes RH, we don't need the first if they can be done by 30-May.
But what makes you think we can agree a registry query spec by 30-May?
There's been very little discussion on it to date: we can schedule some time
for this in Boston but I'm very sceptical that we could agree an approach
based on an hour or two discussion.
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 5. Demonstrate viability of RMS v0.91 and RI v0.1 between projects
     1-Jun-2004 to 30-Aug-2004
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And unless the agreement on querying is to adopt an XQuery/XPath approach
similar to that already employed by AstroGrid, we certainly won't be able to
trial it by 30-Aug: our Iteration06 will use the current method and isn't
due to finish until 30-Aug.

I'll not go on as the RI date is the core difference between the two
roadmaps.

Cheers,
Tony.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org] 
> On Behalf Of Ray Plante
> Sent: 05 April 2004 17:08
> To: registry at ivoa.net
> Subject: RE: roadmap
> 
> Hi Tony et al.,
> 
> Attached is my attempt at incorporating NVO hopes/dreams into 
> the roadmap.  
> As Bob has mentioned, we are keen to deliver useful services 
> now.  In practical terms, "now" means in time for our NVO 
> summer school (14-18 Sep. 
> 2004): we would like to allow students to tinker with a 
> working registry system to build useful applications.  This 
> means that it should be possible to register new resources as 
> well as search registries.  On the hand (as Bob also noted), 
> we recognize that we must be prepared to revise our standards 
> and software in these early stages; thus, I think it is 
> appropriate that we plan in revision activity for next year.  
> The reconciliation between these competing concerns is that 
> we would like to see a fairly complete registry system 
> deployed and working by this summer; however, we should not 
> be too afraid of revision afterward.  
> 
> So, to address our desire to speed things up a bit, I have 
> recommended these changes: 
> 
>   o  move the draft RI spec up to 30-may-2004 (we're well on 
> our way). 
> 
>   o  move demonstration of viability of RMS & RI to end 30-Aug-2004.
> 
> Implicit in the 30-May-2004 deadline for RMS v0.91 is the 
> workshop on the VOResource core.
> 
> One area that we need to plan for is about registry 
> curation--ensuring the integrity and usefulness of the 
> registry data.  We can't really address this without 
> experience with a fully working system.  To this end, I've 
> inserted the following milestone: 
> 
>  8. Create Best Practices document for Registry Curation; draft
>     Curation Policy standard, if necessary
>      31-Mar-2005
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> cheers,
> Ray
> 
>