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[Rob Seaman]

I look forward to seeing your slides on the subject at the BoF.

On Sep 13, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Matthew Graham wrote:

> Hi,
>>>> using IVOA semantic tools in our aggressively pragmatic  
>>>> workflow.  I
>>>
>>> Can you elaborate on the workflow, Rob? Al's post seemed to imply  
>>> that
>>> inserting semantic tools anywhere would be too time-costly to be  
>>> worthwhile.
>>
>> That's not exactly what I meant, although I understand how it  
>> could be seen that way. There are certain VOEvent applications  
>> where we're not even using an XML parser because it's too much  
>> overhead. There are others where a few hours don't matter, and  
>> semantic tools could prove very useful (SNe candidates spring to  
>> mind). As ever mandating the use of such to get information out of  
>> the packet is something I'm against, so as always YMMV.
> (Lights blue touch paper...)
> So maybe it's time we started seriously thinking about a two-tier  
> system based on different serializations of the VOEvent data model.  
> The ultrafast layer uses a JSON representation of a VOEvent and TCP/ 
> V as the transport protocol; the normal layer uses the standard XML  
> representation and the suite of protocols that we currently support.
> (and retires)
>
>    Cheers,
>
>    Matthew