Error column in VOResource

Roy Williams roy at caltech.edu
Tue May 18 07:58:54 PDT 2004


> VOTable is not included in VOResource because VOTable is crap at
> representing metadata.

And how is Martin's version any better? Indeed how is it different? It is
semantically identical to VOTable, except for the error column. I am really
puzzled why another format is needed.

Roy
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<Column>
      <vr:Name>FREQ</vr:Name>
      <vr:Description>Frequency at center of the image
wavehand</vr:Description>
      <DataType>float</DataType>
      <Unit>Hz</Unit>
      <ErrorColumn>FREQ_ERR</ErrorColumn>
   </Column>



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