1. Registry Interfaces 1.1 Theresa Dower NAVO/STScI Oct 2016
IVOA Interoperability Meeting -- Trieste

2. RI 1.1 Overview
Defines web interface for downloading registry contents in whole or partial updates
Defines publishing-only and searchable registries
NEW: describes IVOA registry ecosystem, Registry of Registries, and best practices for harvesting
NEW: does NOT reference any one required web interface for search.
NEWER: describes methods for clients to discover searchable registries given supplied options for registering them.
Oct 2016
IVOA Interoperability Meeting – Trieste

3. RI 1.1 Status Current(ish) version: Working Draft
Send to PR after addressing session comments?
Current(ish) version:
html (plus some RofR link changes in Volute, not yet rebuilt and re-submitted)
Oct 2016
IVOA Interoperability Meeting -- Trieste

4. RI 1.1 Drivers for Change Drivers for this version change:
Remove reliance on specific, outdated technologies for search
Include Registry of Registries and harvesting architecture in a formal IVOA document (had previously only been a note)
Oct 2016
IVOA Interoperability Meeting -- Trieste

5. Removing the obsolete
Removed entire section 2 (REQUIRING a particular interface for “fully searchable registry”)
ADQL 1.0 (deprecated)
XQuery
SOAP-based search interface (deprecated as a common practice in favor of REST)
Oct 2016
IVOA Interoperability Meeting – Trieste

6. Replacing the obsolete
New Section 5: Searching the Registry
Cites RegTAP as an example
Does not endorse any one particular search interface/technology
Registries may advertise various search capabilities as technologies and standards progress
Oct 2016
IVOA Interoperability Meeting – Trieste

7. Adding VOSI
Added requirement to provide VOSI endpoints:
CAPABILITY
Harvest, old and new search interfaces
AVAILABILITY
TABLES
Only relevant / required if RegTAP or later table interface available.
Oct 2016
IVOA Interoperability Meeting -- Trieste

8. RofR & Best Practices
Added description of RofR and its purpose, plus process for adding registries to the RofR listing and searching.
This had previously been an IVOA note (Plante et al)
Largest change in the document: please review
Oct 2016
IVOA Interoperability Meeting -- Trieste

9. One Open Question
“What constitutes a registered searchable registry for the RofR?”
We tell clients to look for:
A vg:Registry record with RISearch OR
A vg:Registry record with AUX RegTAP capability OR
A RegTAP service (somehow associate it back as registered)
Oct 2016
IVOA Interoperability Meeting -- Trieste