VO Catalog presentation

[Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban]

Ok. We will allocate you a 10' slot.

I would be nice you or/and others could give us an update about where the 
Catalog DM stand nonetheless

Cheers,

Maria

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Brian Thomas wrote:

> 
> 	Oops. Sorry for the repeat..original mail was as my 'non-astronomer'
> self and may have bounced. Here's a second try...
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 21 September 2005 03:43, Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban wrote:
> >         * Table data model (standard column names) Where does the Catalog
> > Data Model WG stand?
> > 
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         I am not sure that I can speak for the Catalog working group, but I can
>         present a VO Catalog model which has been proposed and is not (apparently)
>         at odds with the other models presented by the WG. 
> 
>         This catalog model is built for the purposes of being queried,
>         holding a wide selection of the data which are present in the VO, is developed 
>         so that it can overlay a series of SQL tables/databases (e.g. SkyNodes 
>         accessed by ADQL), and can eventually be used in conjunction
>         with other VO DM components (and as well a planned advanced form of UCDs
>         .."UCD3"). 
> 
>         The query mechanism for this catalog is made in terms of "XQuery+" (an 
>         extended form of the standard XQuery). I can try to fit this all in to 10 min 
>         presentation. 
> 
>         Some materials (all which is older, and not terribly organized at the moment,
>         and which I am in the process of updating) for this model may be found at :
> 
>         http://archive.astro.umd.edu/VOCatalog
> 
>         and 
> 
>         http://archive.astro.umd.edu/NX_api/index.html
> 
>         I shall also be presenting a poster on this work at the ADASS meeting which
>         proceeds the IVOA.
> 
>         Thanks,
> 
>         =brian
> 

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