VOEvent, unique id's, and IVORNs

Matthew Graham mjg at cacr.caltech.edu
Thu Jan 19 09:08:53 PST 2006


Alasdair Allan wrote:

>
> Matthew Graham wrote:
>
>> Alasdair Allan wrote:
>>
>>> I'm at the AstroGrid Technical Workshop this week, and according to 
>>> the great and the good...
>>
>>
>> Yes, the IDs are currently incorrect; however, the publisher ID does 
>> not need to be an Organisation resource but should rather be 
>> registered as a VOEvent Publisher resource.
>
>
> Okay...
>
>> The problem, of course, is that we have not yet worked out the 
>> metadata that we require to describe VOEvent resources in the 
>> registry. This is something we should try and get ready for 
>> discussion at VOEvent III/IVOA Interop.
>
>
> Sounds like a reasonable plan, however in the meantime we should fix 
> our IVORNs to look like this,
>
>   <VOEvent id="ivo://uk.org.estar/estar.ex#test/7046.81"
>
> rather than this,
>
>   <VOEvent id="ivo://estar.ex/test/7046.81"
>
> or are you agruing that they should look something like this,
>
>   <VOEvent id="ivo://estar.ex#test/7046.81"
>
> instead?

No, your proposed solution is correct.

    Cheers,

    Matthew



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