From msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de  Tue Aug 27 09:10:13 2024
From: msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de (Markus Demleitner)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:10:13 +0200
Subject: Patterns for Table Registration
Message-ID: <20240827071013.3v65adcuvra5ctku@victor>

Dear Registry community,

In February, I had promised to say a bit more about patterns for
registering Table-like resources (like Obscore, EPN-TAP, ObsLocTAP,
RegTAP, etc) when a respective draft note would be a bit further on
<http://mail.ivoa.net/pipermail/registry/2024-February/005554.html>.
This had some urgency because the Obscore part of this endeavour
is important for global dataset discovery.

Well, for some reason I was convinced I already had sought further
input and took the lack of feedback for general consensus.  Ahem.
Thus deluded, I went ahead and uploaded the Note "TableReg:
Registering TAP-Queriable Tables Conforming to Standard Schemas"; it
is now at.
<https://ivoa.net/documents/Notes/TableReg/20240821/>

As a Note is just an expression of opinion, there's no harm done I
guess, but let me now ask you to:

(a) Review the content of the note; totally feel free to create bugs
or PRs at https://github.com/ivoa/TableReg for things that appear not
profound enough for this mailing list; feedback of a more general
nature, however, would be more welcome here, where more eyes see it.

(b) If you run an Obscore service or know people who do, please try
and create a TableReg record (see sect. 5) for it.  Oh, and publish
it.  For efficient global discovery over Obscore, it is really
important to have these records, and the sooner they show up for the
"big" obscore tables the better.

Thanks!

            Markus