Server-side Opertaion for Data Access version 1.0 Proposed Erratum 1: ID parameter UCD amendment

Author: Marco Molinaro

Date last changed: 2019-04-16

Rationale

SODA protocol uses the ID parameter to specify opaque identifiers to the dataset or file to be accessed. The UCD specified in the SODA-embedded 3-factor semantics is reported in the REC text as

meta.ref.url;meta.curation.SODA

Erratum Content

This Erratum proposes to change, in §3.2.1 "*ID*" of SODA - Version 1.0 the UCD in the sentence

The UCD describing the ID parameter is meta.ref.url;meta.curation.SODA

from

meta.ref.url;meta.curation.SODA

to

meta.id;meta.dataset

thus achieving:

• typo amendment
• reference to a dataset rather than an organization
• using a UCD referring to an identifier rather than a resource locator
• keeping the identifier opaque as required by the specification

Impact Assessment

Being the UCD only used in SODA to describe uniquely the ID parameter using the 3-factor semantics, this change will have a minimal impact on the service provider's side (requiring the UCD amendment a releasing it). On the client side it has o be evaluated whether applications need changes. However it has to be noticed that there are few SODA service currently in place (and none registered).