Querying Params
Rob Seaman
seaman at noao.edu
Sat Oct 24 10:42:09 PDT 2009
In general facilities should be driven by usage - my (tentative) vote
would thus be #1.
Rob
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On Oct 9, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Matthew Graham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Roy has passed some comments about the current SEAP spec onto me and
> there is one issue that needs discussion/resolution at the WG level.
>
> In the current (1.1) VOEvent model, a Param can have a name, a
> value, a unit and a UCD. There have been previous requests to be
> able to query against all of these (although UCD got omitted due an
> oversight) but Roy would rather that we just limit to name and value
> and drop unit and UCD.
>
> This would mean that you could not search for events with a
> parameter whose values are expressed in a particular unit or where
> the parameter has a particular UCD.
>
> The decision therefore is:
>
> (1) Maintain the current functionality which allows querying against
> name, value, unit and UCD
>
> (2) Drop the ability to query against unit and UCD
>
> Please comment, discuss or just express which option you prefer.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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