Registry Sessions at the November 2009 Interoperability Meeting

Moderator: Ray Plante

Plenary 1 (Tuesday, 2pm)

Session 1: Standards Status, Interoperability Issues (Tuesday, 2pm)

Agenda:

Notes:

Validation Tools Presentation was postponed to the Thursday session (see announcement).

Interoperability Issues: Theresa presented several specific issues to introduce the general issues (see slides):

• resource records: Non-standard dates
• Invalid data service access URLs: missing trailing & or ?
  • Jonathan Fay: while long-standing problem, is extremely mysterious and frustrating to the non-cognizant app developers
  • Guy: VOSI should help
  • Mike: have seen an erroneous mix of & and &
  • Guy/Matthew:
  • Theresa: RofR needs to check for AccessURL &
  • Mark: more concerned with problems I can't fix or detect

• Fixing the problem: contact the publishing registry and/vs. original publisher
  • What can a publishing registry provider fix w/out publisher in the loop?
    • obvious spelling
    • namespace problems
    • XML syntatic errors (incl. accessURL)
    • breaking up subject entries
  • what requires involvement of original publisher?
    • rewording
    • deleted records/inactive services
    • Ray: Suggested process for handling consistently non-responding services:
      1. registry provider sends email to publisher to find out if service still maintained.
      2. if no response, provider may change status to "inactive".

Ray: Can publishing registry providers agree to response promptly to problem reports of the first kind?

Pierre: sample XML records would go along way
Ray: Great thing to include into RegistryGuide

Sebastien: has been experimenting with ontologies and keyword search; can move up or down in the ont. tree. Also experimenting with indexing records with canonical object names.

Session 2: Transitioning to VODataService; Next Extensions (Thursday, 11am)

Agenda:

• Transitioning to VODataService

  VODataService is completing its RFC; we next need to discuss its deployment.

• New Extensions: RegSimpleDAL, VOStandard
• Update on Astronomy Visualization Metadata (AVM)
• Validation Tools: Latest Developments