RegTAP11RFC < IVOA

---+ RegTAP 1.1 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments

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---++ Summary

Registries provide a mechanism with which VO applications can discover and select resources - first and foremost data and services - that are relevant for a particular scientific problem. The RegTAP specification defines an interface for searching this resource metadata based on the IVOA's TAP protocol. It specifies a set of tables that comprise a useful subset of the information contained in the registry records, as well as the table's data content in terms of the XML VOResource data model. The general design of the system is geared towards allowing easy authoring of queries.

RegTAP 1.1, as a minor version increment over RegTAP 1.0, is backward compatible. The main differences between 1.1 and 1.0 are as follows:

   * new allowed res_detail values for testQueryStrings
   * more generic type information in schema tables
   * mapped terms in fields for dates and resource relationships to a vocabulary for DataCite compatibility
   * case-insensitive query support from ADQL 2.1
   * new columns for service mirrors, rights, and authentication and authorization of protected data and services
   * new table for alternate identifiers, supporting DOIs, ORCIDs, bibcodes, and future identification schemes
Latest version of RegTAP 1.1 can be found at:
   * http://ivoa.net/documents/RegTAP/20190503/index.html

---+++ Reference Interoperable Implementations

Two separate reference implementations of server-side architecture exist at GAVO (and other archives using GAVO's codebase) and STScI

   * GAVO:
   * STScI: http://vao.stsci.edu/regtap/tapservice.aspx . Runs MSSQL server, C# ASP.NET web service code plus the ADQL translator from the VOLLT project (https://github.com/gmantele/vollt)
The TOPCAT client is aware of RegTAP 1.1 features and is interoperable with both reference implementations

---+++ Implementations Validators

(If any, indicate here the links to Implementations Validators)

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---++ Comments from the IVOA Community during RFC/TCG review period: RFC_start_date - RFC_end_date

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---++ Comments from TCG member during the RFC/TCG Review Period: TCG_start_date - TCG_end_date

WG chairs or vice chairs must read the Document, provide comments if any (including on topics not directly linked to the Group matters) or indicate that they have no comment.

IG chairs or vice chairs are also encouraged to do the same, althought their inputs are not compulsory.

---+++ TCG Chair & Vice Chair

---+++ [[IvoaApplications][Applications Working Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaDAL][Data Access Layer Working Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaDataModel][Data Model Working Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaGridAndWebServices][Grid & Web Services Working Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaResReg][Registry Working Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaSemantics][Semantics Working Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaDCP][Data Curation & Preservation Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaTheory][Education Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaKDD][Knowledge Discovery Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaSS][Solar System Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaTheory][Theory Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaVOEvent][Time Domain Interest Group]]

---+++ [[IvoaOps][Operations]]

---+++ [[IvoaStdsDocsProc][Standards and Processes Committee]]

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---++ TCG Vote : Vote_start_date - Vote_end_date

If you have minor comments (typos) on the last version of the document please indicate it in the Comments column of the table and post them in the TCG comments section above with the date.

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Topic revision: r1 - 2019-05-30 - TheresaDower