New version of VO Support Interfaces: v0.26

[Ray Plante]

Hi,

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Aurelien Stebe wrote:
> We consider 3 different types of Metadata :
> - Resource Metadata : the "curation" and "content" elements of
> VOResource (creator, contact, description, subjects, ...)
> - Service Metadata : the "capability" element of VOResource (URL
> endpoint, service type, max records, ...)
> - Table / IO Metadata : the "catalog" and "param" elements of
> VOResource (table/column name, UCD, uType, input parameters, output
> fields, ...)

I appreciated this summary and essentially agree with Aurelien's 
assessment.  In particular, he argues that table metadata should be gotten 
from the service, which supports my call (on the other thread ;-) for 
a common method for retrieve table metadata direct from the service.

cheers,
Ray