How to Publish to the NVO

[Gerard Lemson]

Hi Ray

We did indeed came to the conclusion that it should be possible to
register resources without there being a fitting standard
specification/protocol. I would actually like to try to register some
such theory specific services and datasets during the interop, as there we
could benefit from interaction with registry connaiseurs such as you.
Would you be willing and to make a contribution to one of the theory
sessions on Monday to explain this in some more detail ?

Cheers
Gerard

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Ray Plante wrote:

> Gentle Theorists,
> 
> During a recent chat, Sebastien Derriere reported on a meeting of 
> VOTheorists in which there was some discussion of how one should publish 
> simulation data and/or services to the VO.  I thought that I would mention 
> a document I wrote for the NVO called "How to Publish to the NVO".  It's 
> meant to be a brief introduction to VO publishing with pointers to how to 
> get started.  It's a little out of date at the moment (an update is in the 
> works), but it is not inaccurate.  I would be interested to get some 
> feedback from your group about how applicable you feel it is to 
> theory-related resources.  In particular, if you have suggestions for 
> addressing the theory community, this would get a great time to get those.  
> 
> In the VO, we talk a lot about registering standard services like SIA and 
> SkyNodes.  However you may not be aware that it is currently possible to 
> register general data collections and non-standard services, including 
> those that have a web-page interface.  While I'm sure that you will 
> benefit from some standards that are specifically targetted to the theory 
> community in the future, you may find the generic resource descriptions 
> useful today.  In fact, I would encourage you to visit the registry at 
> NCSA (http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/nvoregistration.html) and try registering 
> somethings.  This site provides a sandbox version that allows you to try 
> out the interface without actually publishing anything.  
> 
> Finally, to the Registry WG, it's been suggested that we take a look at 
> this document and see if there is an IVOA version we might publish as a 
> note.  Your feedback is welcome as well.  
> 
> cheers,
> Ray
> 
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