Sonali
Thank you for your burst of cold reality in this increasingly abstract discussion. In debating the structure of UCD2, I have been continually thinking of you and others who build actual software that "understands" UCD.
Unfortunately, I cannot answer your questions. I could simply say there will be a web service for doing the matching, but then you will say who and where and when. I do not know. Can I call here fo volunteers to make the UCD2 services? How soon?
I am beginning to think that adopting UCD2 will require a lot of hard work by a lot of people -- data providers as well as consumers -- and I am not seeing the concrete and immediate benefits.
Perhaps we should start working towards a very sophisticated RDF-based model ("UCD3") for alpha release in a year or two. But stay with a cleaned-up UCD1 for the near to medium term.
Comments anyone?
Roy
> Hello,
>
> Could someone throw light on the UCD matching
> function ? Will there be separate parsers written for
> the matching ? In VOPlot as of now, we use UCDs
> to look for similar columns from another VOTable.
> This is a simple string match, but I guess the matching
> function for the new UCD system will be more complex.
>
> Will the matching be provided as a web service ? How
> much data will a software have to carry with it for the
> actual matching (if the matching is done by the software tool) ?
> I am especially worried about this since VOPlot is an applet
> and an applet with a heavy footprint will not be usable.
>
> I would really appreciate any help on this.
>
> - Thanks,
> Sonali
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Received on 2003-11-05Z14:50:27