VOTable alternative?

[Mark Taylor]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Martin Hill wrote:

> As for generic tables = catalogues = main data type for the VO, 
> unfortunately I think this is misleading.  We have been concentrating on 
> that particular set of 'use cases' as a starting point, but there are 
> many other datasets (images, raw/ish data, solar data), many of them 

I have always seen VOTable as a tool for representing specifically
tabular data.  Images do not fall into this category.  I would certainly
be against trying to use VOTable as the format for representation of
images.  The question of how to represent/store/transmit image data in a 
VO-friendly way is certainly an important question but not one I feel
which the VOTable effort as such should be concerning itself with.

Mark

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