I look forward to seeing your slides on the subject at the BoF.
On Sep 13, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Matthew Graham wrote:
> Hi,
>>>> using IVOA semantic tools in our aggressively pragmatic
>>>> workflow. I
>>>
>>> Can you elaborate on the workflow, Rob? Al's post seemed to imply
>>> that
>>> inserting semantic tools anywhere would be too time-costly to be
>>> worthwhile.
>>
>> That's not exactly what I meant, although I understand how it
>> could be seen that way. There are certain VOEvent applications
>> where we're not even using an XML parser because it's too much
>> overhead. There are others where a few hours don't matter, and
>> semantic tools could prove very useful (SNe candidates spring to
>> mind). As ever mandating the use of such to get information out of
>> the packet is something I'm against, so as always YMMV.
> (Lights blue touch paper...)
> So maybe it's time we started seriously thinking about a two-tier
> system based on different serializations of the VOEvent data model.
> The ultrafast layer uses a JSON representation of a VOEvent and TCP/
> V as the transport protocol; the normal layer uses the standard XML
> representation and the suite of protocols that we currently support.
> (and retires)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
Received on 2007-09-13Z23:25:24