On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Mark Taylor wrote:
>
> > I notice that uk.ac.starlink.splat.vo has popped up. I don't imagine
> > it's in any state for a demo, but would you like to give me a short
> > summary of what VO stuff you're intending/hoping to do with SPLAT
> > (and SoG?) in the forseeable future so I can mention it if there's
> > an opportune moment at the VO-Tech meeting tomorrow/friday?
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> coming up to breath for a moment, yes, I have accepted the SPLAT-VO
> challenge (think I prefer the name that way around, but I could be
> persuaded differently if opinions are strong), which is why I've been a
> little quiet. I intended to say something today, so your reminder is
> timely.
>
> I've looked at the SSAP standards documents and decided there isn't one
> really (promised for sometime next year), so I've just more-or-less
> duplicated the sort of thing VOSpec offers and stuck to a very basic level
> of (SSA) functionality.
>
> So SPLAT now has a new shiny button on the main window that opens a dialog
> to control SSAP queries. This offers a fixed set of SSAP servers (there
> are in fact three), a simple name resolver and entry fields for the
> required parts of a query (POS and SIZE). Once the query is made each of
> the returned VOTables is displayed and you can then proceed to either
> download the lot into SPLAT or just a selection of rows (you select using
> the usual table methods).
Sounds good, I'll try to check it out and build it on my laptop.
However, since I probably won't be networked during the
meeting (I believe networking will be wireless, and my laptop
is only wired) can I suggest that someone
else who will be in the DS4 workshop session (Malcolm?) tries to do
the same? Pedro Osuna is doing his VOSpec talk in the DS4 session,
so it would be nice to be able to mention that SPLAT can do it too.
Mark
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