Hello,
My question concerns some of the CDS web services, I'm trying to make use of
http://cdsws.u-strasbg.fr/axis/services/UCD?wsdl
and call method "assign" to resolve natural language description to UCD in my client. The main problem for my case is ambiguity: my client should propose to the user that provides ambiguous description like "astronomical coordinates" or "velocity" several variants to choose from. But above service provides only best match (you call it "suggested complete UCD" in the cgi interface), whereas in the cgi interface
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/UCD/cgi-bin/descr2ucd
all the matches are proposed.
As far as I understand, it is not difficult to deploy a service that would reply with all the possible matches, because this functionality is already avaliable in the cgi. Maybe some flag to assign method or new method that does not affect existing clients?
Sincerely,
Ivan Zolotukhin
Received on 2005-11-26Z00:16:26