Hotwired 3 TDIG Breakout

[Roy Williams]

On 11/15/13 5:29 PM, John Swinbank wrote:
> - Mike introduced his proposal for a “VOEventContainer”: essentially
> a means of bundling multiple VOEvents together with supporting data
> such as images into a single entity. This could address both issues
> surrounding bulk transport as well as the stated aim of the LSST
> folks to include cut-out images with their events. The proposal
> received a positive response from the audience, but there was some
> quibbling over technical details. Mike will introduce his proposal
> and kick off a discussion as to its implementation on the mailing
> list.

I heard the opposite of this. My impression was that there was a 
rejection of the idea of inventing a special IVOA format for bundling 
content. I heard a consensus that *zip* is a perfectly good way to 
bundle multiple events, to bundle events with binary content such as 
images. That zip is well known, widely implemented, and trusted. It is 
the solution used in similar cases, such as epub and docx format, where 
an XML document is bundled with images. Try it yourself:
	cp document.docx document.zip
	unzip document.zip
What I heard is that this is a solved problem, and there is no need to 
invent anything new for bundling XML files and their images.

Roy

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