Re: Moscow meeting

Hi again, Tony,

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Tony Linde wrote:
> Finally, I need to do a report for the exec which is meeting this week in
> Prague. Basically we need to report against the roadmap:
> http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaResReg#Roadmap

Hoo-boy--you basically caught me at the worst time. While not in time for the Exec committee meeting, here's my summary.

At the beginning of the summer, a telecon of registry providers spelled out a more detailed Roadmap for upgrading to RI v1.0 this summer; this can be found at http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/RegUpgradeSummer2006. By the end of July and early August, we were to assess whether we would make this schedule. By about Aug. 7, it was clear that we would not; we would then have to revisit the schedule for an upgrade after Moscow.

Here, though, are some highlights of what was accomplished:

• updated Schemas and related specification complete (on time)
• conversion stylesheets made available (on time)
• Ray made a preliminary release of the RofR for testing the Harvesting interface (http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/rofr; registration and validation not yet released).
• Kevin made availabe an early search interface implementation for testing search clients.
• Ray posted a registry search client library for testing search implementations (see RegUpgradeSummer2006 twiki page).
• One or more local searchable registries will be available for the NVO summer school.

I will continue to update the twiki pages with status information as well as respond to outstanding registry-related queries.

hope this helps,
Ray Received on 2006-08-23Z21:46:20