Alternative Standards View

[Mark Taylor]

Paul,

I'm particularly keen to see this improvement:

 * transform citation links to other standards as internal URLs - it can
   take 4 clicks to navigate from a citation one document to the content
   of another in the standard publishing

but on a (very) quick look at the transformed documents I don't see
it in effect - e.g. the link to UWS in the first paragraph at
https://ivoa.github.io/IvoaDocViewSite/idoc/TAP/TAP.html#tap-async
seems to have just disappeared.  I appreciate this this is only a
first go but can you point to an example where it's working?

Thanks

Mark

On Wed, 5 Nov 2025, Paul Harrison via stdproc wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Inspired by the upcoming interop session on documents and standards, I have created a prototype alternative (more modern) view on the IVOA documents - Some more detail about what I have done is in the https://github.com/ivoa/IvoaDocViewSite/blob/main/README.md  and the result is published in CI to https://ivoa.github.io/IvoaDocViewSite/ 
> 
> This is clearly fairly rough still, but is the result of only a few days work, and is only on a subset of the documentation and essentially no thought has been put into the structure of the left hand contents panel - it just picks up what is available.
> 
> I think that it does offer some insights on
> 
> * style of content desirable for paper vs online at the time of authoring
> * consistency in content style between different documents
> * how amenable content is to automated processing - how many teaks have been put to get the output to look exactly how the author wanted it to appear - content vs presentation.
> 
> Hopefully it can make a contribution to the discussion.
> 
> Paul.

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Mark Taylor  Astronomical Programmer  Physics, Bristol University, UK
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