VOResource 1.1: Mirrors?

Mark Taylor M.B.Taylor at bristol.ac.uk
Mon Jul 4 14:57:39 CEST 2016


On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, Markus Demleitner wrote:

> > The obvious thing is to present the list to the user and get them
> > to decide.  Thinking about the UI for that, some terse human-readable
> > information would be useful, e.g.:
> > 
> >    <accessURL use="base">http://example.edu/svc/stars?</accessURL>
> >    <mirrorURL use="base" description="Primary backup" >http://example2.edu/svc/stars?</accessURL>
> 
> The usage scenario sounds very reasonable, so I'd say let's do it.
> I'm not 100% happy with "description", as that, at least in other
> contexts, implies something that can be longish.  I went for @title

agree.  (@label would be another possibility)

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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