Registering client-side applications

[John Taylor]

Cheers Tony. 
A search of the reg forum has yielded this:
http://asds.stsci.edu/
which looks interesting.

Is there anything else written down I can take a look at or do I need to 
be patient and wait till October?

John


Tony Linde wrote:

>Hi John,
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>>Is anyone in the registry working group looking at how we can 
>>register client-side applications?  The sort of use case I 
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>Yes. There's a small team looking at creating a data model for the registry
>information and registering applications (server- and client-side ones) are
>our next area of concern.
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>This is likely to figure in discussions at the next interop meeting
>post-ADASS.
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>Cheers,
>Tony. 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-apps at eso.org [mailto:owner-apps at eso.org] On 
>>Behalf Of John Taylor
>>Sent: 23 August 2005 17:59
>>To: hanisch at stsci.edu; registry at ivoa.net; apps at ivoa.net
>>Subject: Registering client-side applications
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>>Hi,
>>Is anyone in the registry working group looking at how we can 
>>register client-side applications?  The sort of use case I 
>>have in mind is:
>>a user searches the registry via some portal for a 
>>visualization tool that (say) displays multi-D datasets.  
>>After selecting a suitable application the portal offers to 
>>download and install the software (and maybe even launches it 
>>with the dataset he was working on).
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>>This doesn't seem to fit into the examples on 
>>http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOResourceV010
>>so I think it would require a new extension to the VOResource schema. 
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>>I'd be interested to hear if anyone has already thought about 
>>the sort of meta-data we'd need to record for client-side 
>>apps.  Bob - excuse me mailing you directly as well as 
>>posting to the forum.  Noel Winstanley tells me that you have 
>>already worked on this in a previous life and may have some 
>>ideas about it.
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>>Regards,
>>John
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>>[Cross posting to apps to get the topic started, but please 
>>reply only to registry at ivoa.net]
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