Alternative proposal

[Paul Harrison]

On 11.05.2007, at 11:13, Paul Harrison wrote:

> p.s. As an amusing aside, this hit the German news recently (http:// 
> www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2483499,00.html) - nothing to do  
> with metadata, but it illustrates the problems of a big data  
> reconstruction effort where the computers do the mind-numbingly  
> tedious part before the humans do the clever bit - which is sort of  
> what we want the VO to achieve. The analogy with the registry  
> functionality is that with the current registry, you can find all  
> the pieces of paper that  belong on the same page, but it does not  
> fit them together.

I ruined my analogy by saying "current registry" when no-one agrees  
on what current means - what I meant to say was "course grained  
registry".