[ssig] Solar System resources in the VO

[Pierre Fernique]

Dear Ssig, Apps and VESPA members

As you probably saw, we have more and more Solar System resources 
available in the VO.
This is a really good news (notably hanks to Europlanet effort)

But for client point of view, and notably Aladin, it is more and more 
difficult to display and use correctly these new resources as there is 
presently no standard way to specify the celestial body concerned by 
each of these resources. Actually, in Aladin, we are face to two issues :

 1. How to build correctly the data discovery tree ? Concretely, how to
    move the good TAP, CS and other services to the Solar System branch ?
 2. How to handle the incompatible projections (sky resources over
    planets, or the opposite, or Mars data over Io, etc...) ?

I progressed a little. For the first point, I made a very bad hack based 
on the ivoid. We're lucky, most solar system resources use EPN-core + 
DACHS server... and DACHS automatically uses an ivoid containing the 
substring "/epn". By magic, 35 resources are now placed in the Solar 
System branch. I also had to manually add 3 others resources ( 
jacobsuni/tap, pvol/tap and vo-plasma.oeaw.ac.at/tap). The result is not 
bad (see below) but this method is clearly debatable. And there is no 
distinction between planets.

For the second point, I have not found a solution. Only Solar System 
HiPS maps have a dedicated keyword for each body. But  as it is not the 
case for other resources of the Solar System, I can not presently use 
this keyword.

*So the question : How to characterize Solar System resources in the VO ? *

 1. For the VO registry, do we have to invent a dedicated field such as
    <obsbody>mars</obsbody> ?
 2. For TAP tables, how to specify that this table concerns this body,
    or the sky ?
 3. How to handle the list of celestial bodies ? Do we have to provide a
    list (mercury, venus, earth, moon, mars, io,...) somewhere in the VO ?

Reactions ? Suggestions ? Do we have time to discuss this point during 
Paris Interop ?
Cheers
Pierre Fernique


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