RTML

[Clive Page]

On Thu, 22 May 2003, Alasdair Allan wrote:

> During the morning session I mentioned RTML, and how the robotic
> telescope community is using it to make data requests, some interest
> was shown by various people at the meeting, so...

Alasdair et al

I'm not convinced there's much commonality - if you compare the RTML
schema with what is required in a data archive request (say look in SIAP
or the cone-search prototypes, or ASU) just about the only elements in
common are RA, and DEC.  There's something called "epoch" which might be
intended to be "equinox" (people often confuse them), since equinox is
obviously essential (not every archive uses J2000).  But I see no way of
specifying even a cone-radius or image size.  With so little in common, I
don't see much advantage to it.


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