Hello, all.
I've prepared an HDX overview, which is currently sitting at
<http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/star/java/hdx/>
That is the line I plan to take on HDX in the IVOA talk, which I
intend to write tomorrow. So:
* Do you think this is the right line? I've tried to aim it at what I
believe this audience to be (and you'll surely note that I haven't
said `ontology' once, nor even `semantics', though I have at one
point said `architecture'), but I'm not honestly confident that
I've succeeded.
* I plan to at least read over it again tomorrow, but don't have
current plans to rewrite or much extend it. So if there are any
egregiously opaque bits, make sure I haven't glazed over them.
* Unless folk shout otherwise, I plan to mention this overview
on the [log in to unmask] mailing list tomorrow. I am relived that Tim
also thinks this is a good idea.
* It's not _completely_ clear to me how I demo this. I suppose I
could give the SoG-plus-photom demo (if I can learn how to do it on
Monday), and say, `this is passing HDX wrapped in SOAP, so look,
we really _have_ written this code'. But is that really going to
blow anyone away? The Treeview demo does show the structure, and
is generally regarded as a Good Thing, so perhaps that would be saner.
* That page points to my current version of the javadocs. I think
we should have these pages on the www.starlink.ac.uk machine, if
necessary by simply copying this set of pages over there. As Tim
says, we should have a URL (and a stable one), which I can put in
the slides for my talk, and tell folk about at the meeting.
And no, I don't believe anyone _is_ giving a "By the way Starlink has a
load of algorithm engines that can work as web services" talk. That was
a bit of an omission, methinks. Should we have a word with Clive Page?
See yez,
Norman
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