Re: datasets and registries

From: Arnold Rots <arots-at-head-cfa.cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:38:02 -0400 (EDT)


amicol wrote:
>
> >The registry will tell you the ONE resource that matches
> >ivo://NASA/HST,
> >since this is a unique resource identifier (where NASA is the
> >AuthorityID and HST is the ResourceKey)
>
> I must have misunderstood the purpose of the identifier then!
> Could you please clarify to me whether we speak of
> an ID for a dataset or for a resource ?

No, this is a misunderstanding. The authority ID is "Sa.HST". The string "NASA/HST" appeared in an early part of the ADEC discussion where slashes had a different meaning. Please delete this part of the discussion from your memories.

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