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VODataService: a VOResource Schema Extension for Describing Collections and Services
Version 1.10

IVOA Working Draft 08 May 2009

Interest/Working Group:
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaResReg
Author(s):
Raymond Plante, Aurélien Stébé, Kevin Benson, Patrick Dowler, Matthew Graham, Gretchen Greene, Paul Harrison, Gerard Lemson, Tony Linde, Guy Rixon, and the IVOA Registry Working Group
Editor(s):
Raymond Plante

Abstract

VODataService refers to an XML encoding standard for a specialized extension of the IVOA Resource Metadata that is useful for describing data collections and the services that access them. It is defined as an extension the core resource metadata encoding standard known as VOResource [Plante et al. 2008] using XML Schema. The specialized resource types defined by the VODataService schema allow one to describe how the data underlying the resource covers the sky as well as frequency and time. This coverage description leverages heavily the Space-Time Coordinates (STC) standard schema [Rots 2007]. VODataService also enables detailed descriptions of tables that includes information useful to the discovery of tabular data. It is intended that the VODataService data types will be particularly useful in describing services that support standard IVOA service protocols.

Status of this document

This is an IVOA Working Draft for review by IVOA members and other interested parties.
It is a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time.It is inappropriate to use IVOA Working Drafts as reference materials or to cite them as other than "work in progress".



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