Work Package 4 (Rwp04): Registry Replication & Interfaces

Contents

Introduction

The remit of Work Package 4 is to design a mechanism whereby registry information may be managed and distributed in a robust, scalable fashion and provide a query schema used to interrogate the registry.

Members

The members of the team are:

Name	Email
Andre Schaaff	schaaff@astro.u-strasbg.fr
Gretchen Greene	greene@stsci.edu
Keith Noddle (WP lead)	ktn@star.le.ac.uk
Marco Leoni	mleoni@eso.org
Ray Plante	rplante@ncsa.uiuc.edu
William O'Mullane	womullan@pha.jhu.edu

Scope

Rwp04 has 4 main goals:

1. Design the distribution mechanism
2. Design a Query Schema for interrogating the registry
3. Define the interfaces whereby the above 2 will be achieved
4. Define the interfaces whereby registry contents may be managed

Note "Distributed" in the sense used above can mean many things from referenced (pointers to data) through to replicated (copies of data). At the conclusion of Rwp04 a definition will have been finalised!

Timetable

Date	Deliverable
2 May 2003	Draft replication specification
2 May 2003	Draft 0.1 Query Schema
28 June 2003	Draft 0.2 Query Schema

Design Documents

All design documents can be found by clicking here.

-- KeithNoddle - 16 Apr 2003

Internal Draft Specifications

Registry Interface

• IVOARegistryInterface-v0.1 working draft: Word, PDF

• RegistryQuery.xsd

• Registry Harvesting: a proposal for a Harvesting standard based on OAI (PDF)

  This document is written as drop-in replacement of section 4 in IVOARegistryInterface-v0.1 above.

-- RayPlante - 18 May 2004