T HE I NTERNATIONAL V IRTUAL O BSERVATORY ALLIANCE VAO Registry Publishing Theresa Dower Registry WG May 2014 IVOA Interoperability Meeting -- Madrid

Tech Requirements Cross-platform client, no install Browser-based, no plugins: strictly AJAX Share framework with other VAO registry tools Server side, use STScI OAI harvester framework, validation and ingest Client side uses ExtJS, mostly JSON messaging as per Data Discovery tool VOLogin for user account management May 2014IVOA Interoperability Meeting -- Madrid

User Requirements Avoid jargon: Hide ivo:// identifiers whenever possible Words not acronyms for service types, etc Immediate client-side validation (where possible) Inline help (from de-jargoned standards docs) Templating: copy and modify from user’s own existing resources Staging area for unfinished / template resources Declutter: skip underused optional values Direct XML file upload support May 2014IVOA Interoperability Meeting -- Madrid

Managing Resource Relationships Prepopulate & autosuggest fields Curation/publisher from list of known authorities, organisations Encourage resource ID reference on edit old resources Relationship: offer users’ own resources as a list Identifier: drop-down user-associated authority + validated text entry for individual resource, test for uniqueness on submit. May 2014IVOA Interoperability Meeting -- Madrid

VO Resource XML Standalone XSL script Transactional SQL Insert Fetch starting resource Registry query and harvesting library Registry publishing web services Javascript web client VO Resource XML - DOM Object Form Post ‘Empty’ VOResource superset XML file JSON Resource Summaries Existing VOResource XML OR Fetch supporting related resource information Existing VOResource subsections EXTJS: HTTP Get/callbacks EXTJS: One HTTP Get/callback VO Resource XML - DOM Object

Future Work Minor validation debugging Support more resource types as requested TAP, Open Sky Query, Data Collection Support more optional elements as requested Short form ‘wizard’ vs long form Short form with prepopulated values as end stage of small-data publishing kit Wishlist: incorporate thesaurus autosuggest from Sebastien Derriere’s semantics work May 2014IVOA Interoperability Meeting -- Madrid